US President Donald Trump stated today that he does not rule out the use of military force to take control of Greenland.
“I’m not ruling it out. I’m not saying I’m going to do it, but I’m not ruling anything out. We desperately need Greenland. Greenland is a very small group of people that we will take care of, nurture them, and all that. But we need it for international security,” Trump said in an interview with NBC News on the occasion of his first 100 days in office.
Trump also said that the annexation of Canada by military action is “very unlikely.”
“I don’t think we’ll ever get to that point, something could happen with Greenland… I don’t see that with Canada, I just don’t see it, I have to be honest with you,” Trump said.
He reiterated that he would like Canada to become the 51st US state, noting that he had not discussed the annexation of that country to the United States with the new Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, but that it could be a topic when Carney visits Washington “this week or next week.”
“I’ll always talk about it. You know why? We subsidize Canada with $200 billion a year. We don’t need their cars. In fact, we don’t want their cars. We don’t need their energy. We have more than they do. We don’t want their lumber. We have excellent lumber. All I have to do is free it from the environmental lunatics,” the US leader added.
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Trump said that if “Canada were part of the US, it wouldn’t cost us.”
“It would be great… it would be a valuable state. And, if you look at our map, if you look at the geography – I’m a real estate guy at heart. When I look down, without that artificial line drawn with a ruler many years ago – it was just an artificial line, it goes straight across. What a beautiful country it would be,” Trump concluded.
Asked about the Russian war in Ukraine and the Trump administration’s efforts to negotiate its end, the president said there were times when he was close to giving up on negotiations and that he could still do so.
“Well, there will come a time when I say, ‘Okay, go ahead. Keep being stupid and keep fighting,'” Trump said.
He added that a peace agreement may not be possible, but that he thinks a deal is perhaps “pretty close.”
“Maybe it’s not possible. We’re talking about huge hatred between these two people and between, you know, some of the soldiers, frankly. Between the generals. They’ve been fighting fiercely for three years. I think we have a very good chance of doing it,” Trump emphasized.
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