Trump wants Greenland - what’s to stop him taking it?
On Sunday US president Donald Trump said he needed Greenland “very badly”. It’s a sentiment he expressed during his first term, but what then sounded like something of a fantasy wishlist has now hardened into policy.
Reaction to Trump’s intentions has taken on some urgency following his removal by military force of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, last weekend,
Quite how he might move to take over the vast Arctic territory is unclear.
This week the White House said the use of the US military is “always an option”; it also said it might seek to buy the island from Denmark.
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