The world’s biggest bully, U.S. President Donald Trump has renewed his threat of using military force to annex Greenland, saying in an NBC News interview he wouldn’t rule it out to make the self-governing Danish territory a part of the United States.
It’s the latest in Trump’s many bullying threats about bombing foreign countries and seizing control of the resource-rich island, which he insists the US needs for national security purposes.
“I don’t rule it out,” he told NBC News’ Kristen Welker in an interview that aired on Sunday. “I don’t say I’m going to do it, but I don’t rule out anything.”
“We need Greenland very badly,” Trump said like a little bully child who wants someone else’s toys in the sandbox. “Greenland is a very small amount of people, which we’ll take care of, and we’ll cherish them, and all of that. But we need that for international security.”
He added that he doubted it would happen – but that the possibility is “certainly” there.
Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in buying the island, or the US taking it by force or economic coercion, even as NATO ally Denmark and Greenland have firmly rejected the idea.
Trump’s desire to annex Greenland has raised questions about the island’s future security as the US, Russia and China vie for influence in the Arctic.
But Greenland has pushed back strongly.
“President Trump says that the United States ‘will get Greenland.’ Let me be clear: The United States will not get it. We do not belong to anyone else. We decide our own future,” the island’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said in March after Trump again suggested the use of military force.
Greenland’s not the only sovereign territory Trump has his sights on; the world’s biggest bully has repeatedly threatened to annex Canada and make it the US’ “51st state,” souring relations between the two longtime allies.
Source: NBC, Guardian
