US President Donald Trump says he no longer feels obligated to focus solely on peace after failing to win the Nobel Peace Prize last year.

In a message to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gare Stoer, President Trump criticized the country for not giving him the award.

In his response to Trump, Store explained that it was an independent committee, not the Norwegian government, that awarded the award to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Colina Machado last October.

In the same message to Store, President Trump argued that the United States wants “full and complete control of Greenland,” a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark. Later, when asked if he intended to use force to seize the land, he replied, “No comment.”

Denmark is a member of NATO, a defense alliance with the United States as its most influential partner. It works on the principle that members protect each other in case of external attacks.

Since the Alliance was founded in 1949, one member state has never attacked another member state.

Denmark warned that US military action in Greenland would mean the end of NATO. It has also received support from the alliance’s European members, some of whom sent small numbers of troops to Greenland last week in a symbolic move.

However, following this development, President Trump announced that if the eight North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries, including the UK, object to the proposed purchase of Greenland, he would impose a 10% tariff on the products from February 1, and threatened to raise the tariff to 25% by June.

It was in this tense situation that Jonas Store sent a message to President Trump on behalf of himself and Finnish President Alexander Stubbe.

“We should all try to defuse this situation and de-escalate tensions. There is a lot going on around us and we need to come together,” the European leaders said.

In his reply, President Trump said, “Given your country’s decision not to award me the Nobel Peace Prize for preventing eight wars plus, I no longer feel obligated to think purely about peace. I can now think about what is good and appropriate for America, even though peace will always prevail.”

He went on to say that Denmark cannot protect Greenland from Russia or China, and questioned: “Why do we have ‘ownership’ in Greenland in the first place? There is no written document, just that boats landed there hundreds of years ago. But we used to land boats there too.”

“I have done more for NATO than anyone else since its creation, and now NATO should do something for the United States,” he said.

“The world will not be safe unless we have full and complete control over Greenland,” he concluded.

The sparsely populated but resource-rich Arctic island is well-positioned for early warning systems in the event of a missile attack and for monitoring ships in the region.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday that any decision regarding Greenland’s future status “belongs solely to the people of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark” and said the use of tariffs against the ally was “wrong”.

Also on Monday, Denmark’s Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen and Greenland’s Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeld met with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

Last week, the governments of Denmark and Greenland, together with their North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies, decided to increase military presence and exercise activities in the Arctic and North Atlantic.

Several European countries sent small numbers of military personnel to Greenland on so-called reconnaissance missions.

President Trump has made no secret of his desire to win the Nobel Peace Prize, claiming on Monday that “Norway has complete control of the Nobel Peace Prize.” [the Nobel Prize] No matter what they say. ”

“They like to say they have nothing to do with it, but they have nothing to do with it,” he told NBC News.

President Trump said he deserves the award because he has ended eight wars since his second term as president began last year.

The White House has so far listed these as conflicts between Israel and Hamas, Israel and Iran, Pakistan and India, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Thailand and Cambodia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo.

BBC Verify verified Trump’s claims These included many “wars” that lasted only a few days, although they were the result of long-standing tensions, and in some cases, for example in Egypt and Ethiopia, the fighting never ended.

Fighting continues between Rwanda and the DRC despite the signing of a peace agreement.

The Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Colina Machado.

Later, when the U.S. military detained and removed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from Caracas on suspicion of drug trafficking and other crimes, President Trump did not support Machado as the next leader, instead supporting Maduro’s vice president as head of the interim government.

Machado praised Trump, I met him at the White House last week. And I gave her a medal. The Nobel Foundation said the prize “cannot be inherited or further distributed, even if symbolically.”

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