NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, US General Alexus Grinkevich, said today that "NATO is far from a crisis situation" after US President Donald Trump's threat to seize Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, which is a member of the Alliance.
"NATO is ready to defend its member states," Grinkevich said in Finland, the Paris newspaper Le Monde reported on its website.
"So far it (Trump's threats) has had no impact on my work at the military level, so I would simply say that we are ready to defend every inch of the Alliance," Grinkevich said.
"I believe we are now far from being in a crisis situation," the US general added.
Following the recent US military intervention in Venezuela, Trump reiterated his ambition to annex Greenland, presenting control over the autonomous Danish territory as essential to US national security.
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