Donald Trump wants the US to acquire Greenland for reasons of national security.
07:27, Thu, Jan 15, 2026 Updated: 08:27, Thu, Jan 15, 2026
Donald Trump wants to acquire Greenland (Image: Getty)
A close associate of Vladimir Putin has hit out at Donald Trump's desire to acquire Greenland, claiming the US President wants to use the territory to station intercontinental missiles. A similar move, Dmitry Rogozin said, would lead to the "beginning of the end of the world".
Mr Rogozin, a pro-Putin nationalist serving as a senator in the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast of Ukraine, claimed Washington wants to use Greenland, which is part of the Danish Kingdom, to secure nuclear superiority over Russia and China. He alleged the Trump administration wants to turn the territory into a platform for "deploying means of both nuclear attack and missile defence interception of Russian ICBMs."
Mr Rogozin, who also served as a deputy Russian Prime Minister and head of the Russian Space Agency, added: “This is the dismantling of the entire system of strategic stability in the world that has prevented the use of nuclear weapons since 1945.”
The Russian commentator, allegedly involved in developing Russia’s new Sarmat, or Satan-2, nuclear missile, warned this would put the world on the brink.
He said: “In real life, this can only be tested once, but it is not certain that anyone will be left to prepare reports afterwards. This is the problem: the US, led by an eccentric, may convince themselves that, finally, thanks to the annexation of Greenland and the deployment there of components of the command and control system for strategic offensive weapons, they have achieved nuclear superiority over Russia and China.
“This will be the beginning of the end of the world.”
The pro-Putin commentator went on to allege that a future nuclear WW3 will develop in the Arctic.
He said: “The Arctic is the fastest route for delivering nuclear warheads by missiles from the US to Russia and from Russia to the US. Moreover, not only intercontinental ballistic missiles but primarily cruise missiles from multipurpose nuclear submarines.
“Arctic ice is mobile, and its thickness is not an obstacle for the surfacing of nuclear submarines.
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