As Europe grows increasingly alarmed by the Trump administration’s fixation on Greenland, the Albanese government is being urged to reassess Australia’s “blind loyalty” to the US.

“It seems the Australian government is not willing to face the reality that we find ourselves in and, clearly, that’s hard,” said Dr Emma Shortis, director of international and security affairs at the Australia Institute. 

“US allies are struggling with that all over the world. But this reluctance to look at the United States with clear eyes, I think is just becoming increasingly untenable.” 

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says her country faces a “decisive moment” as the Trump administration airs its ambitions to “own” Greenland, supposedly to stop Russia and China from exerting control over it. Greenland is a self-governing territory of Denmark. 

“I would like to make a deal, you know, 

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