Trump's Wild New Excuse for Wanting Greenland Is His Flimsiest Yet

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Donald Trump refuses to give up on acquiring the island.

https://newrepublic.com/post/194390/donald-trump-new-excuse-greenland





Donald Trump suggested Thursday that the fate of the world rested on the United States gaining control of Greenland. During a press conference with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, Trump made a dramatic claim as he dismissed a question about securing NATO backing in his outlandish bid for control of the world’s largest island.

“Greenland’s gonna be interesting but that’s for another day,” Trump said. “I think we need that for international peace, and if we don’t have that it’s a big threat to our world. So, I think that Greenland is very important for international peace.”

Trump has been outspoken about his pipe dream to acquire the Danish-controlled territory for its value as a geopolitical asset and mineral and oil resources. Crucially, Greenland is strategically significant to the U.S because it sits between Russia and the eastern coast of the United States, and is the fastest way from Europe to New York.

Greenland is also located beside the Norwegian Sea, which connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Arctic Ocean and the Barents Sea, where the Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet operates. In March, Trump told NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte that he could be very “instrumental” in helping the U.S. acquire the semi-autonomous territory from Denmark, which the U.S. desperately needed for “international security, not just security.”

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