Blinken Rejects Trump's Greenland Grab: ‘Not Going to Happen’
January 8, 2025
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0:36Now PlayingBlinken Rejects Trump's Greenland Grab: ‘Not Going to Happen’
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as posted by the channelDespite bellicose language from President-elect Donald Trump, a US takeover of Greenland will never occur, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday in Paris. #trump #greenland #politics #worldnews #blinken
“The idea expressed about Greenland is obviously not a good one, but maybe more important: it’s obviously one that’s not going to happen, so we probably shouldn’t waste a lot of time talking about it,” President Joe Biden’s top diplomat told reporters in a rare direct criticism of an idea Trump floated in the weeks before he reclaims the presidency.
In a free-form news conference in Florida on Tuesday, Trump called for the US to absorb Canada and declined to rule out using military force to seize the Panama Canal and Greenland, saying “we need them for economic security.”
In a less direct rebuff of Trump’s combative “America First” approach, Blinken said the Biden administration has operated under the belief “that we’re stronger, we’re more effective, we get better results when we’re working closely with our allies — not saying or doing things that may alienate them.”
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