The Republican Alaska directly rejects the president’s colonial ambitions.
Lisa Murkovsky demanded that the president respected that “Greenland is not sold.”
On January 22, 2025, Senator Lisa Murkovsky (R-AK) was sent to the Senate House.
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Republican Senator Alaska Lisa Murkovsky absolutely and clearly refuses to go with the increasingly aggressive maneuver Donald Trump to make Greenland part of the United States. In fact, she joined one of Greenland’s most famous political figures, stupidly pushing for the US president’s purchase scheme – or perhaps just claiming – on the island where 57,000 people live.
“Greenland is not for sale” declared Murkovsky and Greenland parliamentarian AAJA Chemnitz After consulting this week. “The question was asked and firmly answered by the Government of Greenland, Nalakkersuut.”
It was a sharp response to the critics defined as president ”Napoleonic trends“And” and “Dreams about the new American Empire“
Murkovsky’s intervention matters because it goes not only with Global leaders or media membersBut from the senior republican senator, even if the influence of this senator can be reduced that it is one of the few independent thinkers who remained in the Trump GP.
Murkovsky, who did not vote for Trump In 2016, 2020 or 2024, the leading Republican Senate dissident appeared since Trump returned to the White House. She was the first GOP senator to announce that would vote against confirmation Pete HegsetThe scandal launched by the president will be headed by the Ministry of Defense (two more Republicans, Susan Collins with Maine and Mitch McConsuel from Kentucky, later joined it), and she expressed her skepticism About other Trump elections. She criticized the president of the rebels and “strongly disagreed” by her executive order on the renaming of Danali, the tops of Alaska, which is the highest Harry of North America, for former Republican President William McKinley –saying“The highest mountain of our country, which has been called Danals for thousands of years, must continue to be known by the legal name, which was awarded by Alaska Koicon Atabaskan, who have been running land since time.”
Murkovsky is a state associated with Greenland because they are both arctic regions with a large number of indigenous populations and strategic positions in the world. With its deep roots, that for almost a century, the American territory won four elections to the Senate as a republican who is engaged in work, which brings considerable support for Democrats and independent. Unlike other GoP senators who are afraid that Trump and his allies can move to disable them in party primaries, Murkovsky has confidence in his political sustainability. In 2010, the Republican primary voters rejected it in favor of tea party. In return Murkovsky miles in the general election as Candidate– And won.
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But even with this record, her willingness to resist the last Juggernaut Trump was strange – so that the Associated Press writer Juno called her current positioning as “an extraordinary Congress who had previously encountered his anger and while remaining unchanged to take her agenda.”
Murkovsky’s intervention on behalf of Greenland is particularly significant, as it is in line with international critics, which Trump outlined in speeches, press conferences and conversations with global leaders, including “including”controversial, aggressive phone call“With the Prime Minister of Mette Frederix from Denmark, the state -member of the European Union, which includes Greenland as a self -governed Arctic area with one’s own language and culture. Chemnitz represents Greenland in the Danish Parliament as a member of the island of Island Party Inuit Ataqatigiit. She is also a chair Permanent Committee of Parliamentarians Arctic RegionFrom which Murkovsky is the chairman.
After the parliamentarian committee met last weekend, Murkovsky and Khimnitz made a statement stating the Trump’s acquisition of Greenland, as well as increased global attention to the fact that the largest uncontrollable island in the world is in a strategic place to defend, delivery , Suda, and much more. The statement firmly claimed: “The United States, like Denmark, must admit that the future will be determined by a partnership rather than the right. In order for our alliance to reach its full potential, Americans must consider Greenland as an ally. Not for sale. “
Murkovsky and Khimnits explained: “The future does not require us to redo the border (Arctic map), but work more than if – anything by them,” and called – in a clear reference to Trump’s territorial ambitions – for “greater acceptance of the Arctic as a region of general responsibility The possibilities of which cannot be used and the problems of which cannot be overcome by a single nation. “
