Trump won't take Greenland by force, Mandelson says
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US President Donald Trump would not "land on Greenland and take it by force", Lord Mandelson has said. The former UK ambassador to the US told the BBC he admired Trump's "directness" in political talks but said he was not a "fool", and advisers would remind him taking Greenland would "spell real danger" for the US national interest. There has been growing focus during Trump's term on how the semi-autonomous Danish territory is run, with Trump on Saturday saying the US needed to "own" Greenland to stop Russia and China from doing so, and would achieve i
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