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Trump's seizure of Maduro from Venezuela has shaken the global order and intensified concern that he will move on Greenland too.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen issued a pointed warning to President Donald Trump about his threats to annex Greenland, following the U.S. abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, over the weekend.
The wife of Trump's deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller posted a photo implying a U.S. takeover of Greenland, hours after the U.S. attacks on Venezuela.
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After Maduro, who's next? Trump spurs speculation about his plans for Greenland, Cuba and Colombia
A day after the audacious U.S. military operation in Venezuela, President Donald Trump on Sunday renewed his calls for an American takeover of the Danish territory of Greenland for the sake of U.S. security interests and threatened military action on Colombia for facilitating the global sale of cocaine,
The sparsely-populated Arctic territory is mineral-rich, and the U.S.'s Pituffik Space Base on the northwest of the island is key for detecting any long-range missiles bound for the U.S. mainland. Danish and Greenlandic officials have repeatedly hit back at U.S. overtures toward the territory.
President Donald Trump said in an interview published Sunday that the United States needs to annex Greenland "for defense," while his deputy chief of staff's wife was reproached by Denmark's ambassador to the U.
Greenland’s remote eastern fjords are a place of elemental beauty, where glaciers carve through the land, musk oxen roam ancient valleys and human resilience is tested against the raw power of nature.
Greenland and Denmark on Sunday expressed their distaste after the wife of President Donald Trump's most influential aide posted a social media picture of Greenland painted in the colours of the US flag.
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