Lecturer wonders about Trump's statements: Golden Dome plans are largely science fiction

On FOX News the US president states that the US will now have "total access" to Greenland without time limit. In addition, he says that the United States is not going to pay for it.

Sermitsiaq has submitted the statements to Peter Viggo Jakobsen, who is a lecturer at the Norwegian Defense Academy. He tells Sermitsiaq that he finds it very difficult to see that Trump should have gotten something that he does not already have under the auspices of the defense agreement:

On FOX News the US president states that the US will now have "total access" to Greenland without time limit. In addition, he says that the United States is not going to pay for it.

Sermitsiaq has submitted the statements to Peter Viggo Jakobsen, who is a lecturer at the Norwegian Defense Academy. He tells Sermitsiaq that he finds it very difficult to see that Trump should have gotten something that he does not already have under the auspices of the defense agreement:

- As far as I can see, the US already has the options in the existing base agreement. But Trump has been all the way up the tree, and he got so far up that he got up into the stratosphere.

- Now he has to crawl back down and say that he has won, because otherwise he is a laughing stock, says Peter Viggo Jakobsen.

- The European bastards

He estimates that Trump is now out to tell the American people that he has done something "great" for the United States:

- He has obtained something for free from the European thieves. It is going to be the story he tours with, which we then have to let go in one ear and out the other, so that we can move forward in a diplomatic way with the Americans, says Peter Viggo Jakobsen.

Since Trump proclaimed on Wednesday evening that the framework for a future agreement on Greenland was in place, there has been high-profile speculation as to what these frameworks might entail, and whether NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has made concessions to Trump on behalf of the Kingdom.

Casts doubt on Golden Dome announcement

Peter Viggo Jakobsen believes that this is not the case:

- He can't get anything from NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte either. Because as the Danish Prime Minister has already said, only Greenland and Denmark can negotiate directly with the USA, and such a negotiation has not taken place, says Peter Viggo Jakobsen.

In the interview with Fox News, Donald Trump says that part of the air defense Golden Dome must be placed in Greenland. Peter Viggo Jakobsen says that the radar at Pituffik Space Base already plays a role in detecting if missiles are heading towards the US:

- It sounds fantastic with this Golden Dome, and especially because it is made of gold. But it is largely science fiction, because experts do not believe that it can be done in the way that Trump imagines. So there's not much reality to it yet.