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To give you an idea of how low 6% is, if you took a poll of Americans and say, ‘Do you believe we actually landed on the moon?’ About 10% of Americans think we faked the moon landing,
Enten noted
I have never seen a single poll in which the yeses on us purchasing Greenland was higher than the no’s throughout American history,
Enten addedThat is more Americans who were for the impeachment and removal of Richard Nixon by the end of his presidency. This is uniformly unpopular, even only half of Republicans support it,
Enten stressedWe're not relying on Denmark or anybody else to take care of that situation.”
The president dismissed the idea of relying on allies for Arctic security, saying
Our message to Denmark is very simple: you have not done a good job by the people of Greenland.”
Under increasingly strained relations between the White House and Greenland and Denmark, Vance said
I think Greenland understands that the United States should own it,
the US president said at a press conference at the White House on FridayThey keep passing around the body in an almost Kafkaesque way.”
Baher Azmy, who argued Khalil’s case should be returned to a New York court, saidGreenland belongs to us.”
In a show of national unity before Vance’s arrival, four of the territory’s five parties signed a coalition agreement that states on page one
We are open for investment cooperation in the Arctic. That could be in logistics, or other areas beneficial to Russia and to the US,
Dmitriev added
We are open to considering different investment opportunities that we can do jointly with the US, in certain sectors approved by the Russian government,
President Putin's envoy for foreign investment and economic cooperation Kirill Dmitriev said, as reported by BBCGeopolitical competition in the Arctic region is intensifying,
Putin said, citing Trump's Greenland proposal as a key exampleWe have to have Greenland. It’s not a question of, ‘Do you think we can do without it? We can’t,
said Trump, who claimedBut the way to get it is to act like a responsible ally, dealing with allies that we’ve built up trust and good faith with over decades, and not ripping the North Atlantic Alliance apart,
he continued
The language that he uses is completely substitutable for the language that [Russian President] Vladimir Putin uses about Ukraine, ‘We need it for our national security,’ or [Chinese President] Xi Jinping uses about Taiwan,
Bolton told MSNBC’s Chris JansingWhen you push and indeed slap publicly democratically elected leaders — whether in Copenhagen or Nuuk, the capital of Greenland — it pushes them into a corner,
Bolton told JansingI'm not embarrassed we haven't extended a traditional Greenlandic welcome to the Vances
Her mother, retired social worker Hedvig Freriksen, 64, added
There will come a time, when I will feed you to the polar bears,
One of these threats, received on Facebook, had a distinctly local flavour ... the bricklayer-turned-lobbyist, who believes America will boost the economy, was warnedWe don't want to be colonised a second time, by America.
Fiercely critical of past injustices at the hands of the Danes – including forced contraception for Inuit women and the huge profits taken from mines linked to aluminium production – she nevertheless insistsDenmark and Greenland have made it abundantly clear: we will not tolerate foreign interference – no matter how high up it comes in Washington.”
He accused Vance of talking “fiction” in his speech, saying
We need to wake up from a failed 40-year consensus that said that we can ignore the encroachment of powerful countries as they expand their ambitions,
Vance added