“We need Greenland very urgently,” says Trump and renews the threat of using military violence to connect the Danish territory

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President Donald Trump renewed his threat to Greenland's military violence, and said in an NBC news interview that he would not rule out the self-managed Danish territory to make part of the United States.

It is the youngest in Trump's many comments to capture control over the resource-rich island that he exists for the US needs for national security purposes.

“I'm not excluding it,” he told NBC News' Kristen Welker in an interview that was broadcast on Sunday. “I'm not saying that I will do it, but I'm not excluding anything.”

“We need Greenland very urgently,” said Trump. “Greenland is a very small amount of people we take care of and we will appreciate them and all of this. But we need it for international security.”

He added that he doubted that it would happen – but that the possibility was “safe” there.

Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in the purchase of the island or the USA, which you take with violence or economic compulsion, even if NATO alleged Denmark and Greenland have firmly rejected the idea.

There are some factors that drive this interest. Greenland occupies a unique geopolitical position that sits between the United States and Europe, which could help to ward off potential attacks from Russia. It is also located along an important shipping lane and is part of the Grenland-Irieland-United Kingdom Gap, a strategic maritime region.

Experts also suspect that Trump observes other aspects of Greenland, such as: This includes oil and gas as well as the rare earth metals that are in demand for electric cars, wind turbines and military devices.

Since Trump expressed plans for his presidency in December, his wish to annex Greenland has to raise questions about the future security of the island, since the United States, Russia and China compete for the Arctic.

But Greenland pushed back sharply.

“President Trump says that the United States will” get Greenland “. Let me be clear: the United States will not get it.

Greenland is not the only sovereign territory in which Trump has its sights; The president has repeatedly threatened to grow Canada and make it a “51st state” of the United States and to collect relationships between the two long -standing allies.

Last week the Liberal Party of Canada caught victory in national elections, with Prime Minister Mark Carney on a wave of anti-trump mood and uses his victory speech to explain that they “never give in to the United States”.

During the NBC interview on Sunday, Trump said that it was “highly unlikely” that he would apply military violence to connect Canada.

“I don't see it with Canada. I just don't see it, I have to be honest with you,” he said.

He added that after his election victory with Carney, he called the Canadian leader as a “very nice man”. Trump congratulated Carney, but they did not discuss the threat of Canada, he said.

Carney will visit Trump in Washington on Tuesday. When asked whether the topic would appear during this visit, Trump replied: “I will always talk about it.”

If Canada were a state, “it would be great,” added Trump. “It would be an estimated condition.”