United States President Donald Trump says he is seeking immediate negotiations to acquire Greenland.
“We probably won’t get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force, where we would be frankly unstoppable.
“But I won’t do that,” Trump tells world leaders at Davos
“I don’t have to use force, I don’t want to use force, I won’t use force.” All the US is asking for, he then says, is “a place called Greenland.”
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Trump said American presidents have sought to buy Greenland for nearly two centuries.
The president asserted that there’s “no sign” of Denmark on the island, and that Denmark is spending less money than promised on Greenland.
“It’s the US alone that can protect this giant mass of land, this giant piece of ice, develop it and improve it,” he declared.
This, he said, is why he’s seeking “immediate negotiations” to acquire the country.
Trump, in making his pitch to the Davos audience for why the US should acquire Greenland, mentioned national security concerns and its location in America’s Western Hemisphere sphere of influence.
The new twist, however, was his assertion that the US had control of, and a claim to, the island because of its efforts to defend the territory during World War II after Denmark was invaded by Germany.
“We already had it, but we returned it to Denmark after World War II,” he said. The US “should have kept it,” he said.
