{"id":382655,"date":"2026-01-21T18:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/382655\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T18:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:14:14","slug":"world-would-be-a-better-place-if-us-took-over-greenland-says-nigel-farage-davos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/382655\/","title":{"rendered":"World would be a \u2018better place\u2019 if US took over Greenland, says Nigel Farage | Davos"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world would be a \u201cbetter, more secure place\u201d if America took over Greenland, Nigel Farage<\/a> said at Davos, while insisting that he still believed in the sovereignty of nation states.<\/p>\n

During a panel at the World Economic Forum\u2019s \u201cAmerica House\u201d in the Swiss ski resort on Wednesday, the Reform UK<\/a> leader said he had \u201cno doubt\u201d that the world would be safer if a \u201cstrong America\u201d was in Greenland \u201cbecause of the geopolitics of the High North, because of the retreating ice caps and because of the continued expansionism of Russian icebreakers, of Chinese investment\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speaking just after Donald Trump appeared to rule out taking position of Greenland by force<\/a>, while doubling down on his demand to annex the \u201cbig, beautiful piece of ice\u201d, Farage insisted that while he \u201cagreed strategically\u201d with Trump he believed in \u201cnation states \u2026 not globalist structures\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I]f you believe in the nation state and not globalist structures, you believe in sovereignty,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd if you believe in sovereignty, you believe in the principle of national self-determination.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cYou must respect the rights and views of the Greenlanders, because that is what national self-determination is, and that\u2019s a key part.\u201d<\/p>\n

Farage is a longtime critic of Davos<\/a>, describing it in a video<\/a> as a place where decisions are made that \u201cbow down to the European Union\u201d and calling the attenders \u201cpeople deciding our futures in Swiss ski resorts\u201d.<\/p>\n

During the forum he insisted that stance had not changed. \u201cFor those of us at Davos<\/a> that are fighting the globalists, belief in national self-determination is at the root of what people like me, albeit the minority here, believe in,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I think that\u2019s really, really important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked about the rise in popularity of Reform in the UK, Farage referred to the \u201cmoral decline\u201d of Britain and said people were disenchanted with politics and wanted an alternative to the Conservatives and the Labour party.<\/p>\n

Positive polling ratings represented \u201ca Britain that is in very serious decline, economic decline, social decline, even moral decline, in many ways, in knowing the difference between right and wrong. And so people are desperate for something different,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Farage said \u201cyoung entrepreneurs, our highest taxpayers, many of our best businesses\u201d were deserting the country, adding that while there was \u201ca long way to go \u2026 I think we\u2019ve got every chance of winning the next election. I really do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world would be a \u201cbetter, more secure place\u201d if America took over Greenland, Nigel Farage said at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-382655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}