President Donald Trump reiterated his controversial intention to "get Greenland, including right, title and ownership," but stressed he wouldn't employ "force," using his Davos address on Wednesday to repeatedly mock European allies and argue that NATO should not obstruct U.S. expansionist aims.
"What I'm asking for is a piece of ice, cold and poorly located," Trump told the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Switzerland, declaring of NATO: "It's a very small ask compared to what we have given them for many, many decades."
Trump has spent weeks saying that the U.S. will get control of Greenland no matter what it takes, but his comments at the gathering of global elites were startling in how much further he went on just how he plans to do it.
He urged NATO, which has held firm since the dawn of the Cold War but now is facing an unprecedented test given Trump's demands, to allow the U.S. to take Greenland from Denmark. The Republican president even added an extraordinary warning, saying alliance members can say yes, "and we'll be very appreciative.
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