Denmark has sent a clear signal that it may withdraw from the North Atlantic Alliance if Washington moves from rhetoric to forceful action regarding the annexation of Greenland to the United States, former Austrian Foreign Minister and head of the G.O.R.K.I. Center at St. Petersburg State University, Karin Kneissl, told TASS in an interview.
"Yes, the Danish government has already indicated that such a risk exists," she stated, responding to a question about the possibility of the country leaving NATO due to the Greenland situation.
At the same time, Kneissl noted that it is not yet possible to say exactly what form the confrontation between the USA and Denmark will take, but "in a certain sense, the situation is archaic." "Whether there will be a confrontation with Denmark—verbal or otherwise—we shall see," she remarked. "On the other hand, it [the situation] is not entirely archaic because similar methods of purchasing concessions and establishing close cooperation have already existed in history."
The former Austrian foreign minister recalled that the British had already employed similar practices through their East India Trading Company. "They concluded trade agreements and then, over time, seized those states," she specified. "That was colonialism, not archaic, but colonialism proper. It was an era that has partially ended and partially not."
Kneissl emphasized that the course being pursued by the USA on the international stage and "kidnapping presidents, this is no longer colonial or imperial behavior," but precisely archaic. "It resembles Vikings who would grab some chieftain and say: ‘this one we are taking with us.’ However you look at it, no other word besides ‘archaic’ comes to mind here," the former minister concluded.
MNA
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