Donald Trump is laying his cards on the table about his plans to acquire Greenland - and thankfully, he's vowed not to 'use force'.
The US President is going full steam ahead and has demanded 'immediate negotiations' to try and get a deal done; however, he has said there will be no military intervention involved.
While speaking at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday (21 January), the commander-in-chief again discussed his bizarre idea for the US to take ownership of Greenland.
He delivered a speech onstage in Davos, which was largely focused on his hopes for getting a grip on Greenland once and for all.
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Trump said he was 'seeking immediate negotiations to once again discuss the acquisition of Greenland by the United States, just as we have acquired many other territories throughout our history, as many of the European nations have', adding: "This would not be a threat to NATO. This would greatly enhance the security of the alliance."
Trump also told NATO allies that he does not intend to use force to get what he wants, despite previously ominously warning the world would 'find out' just how far he'd go to acquire Greenland.
"We won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive force, we'd be unstoppable, but we won't do that," he said. "I don't have to use force, I don't want to use force, I won't use force."
So, it seems that taking Greenland via military intervention has been ruled out...for now, at least.
He appeared to pick up on the audience breathing a collective sigh of relief, as Trump then added: "That’s probably the biggest statement I made because people thought I would use force. I don’t have to use force. I don’t want to use force.”
The President also laid out what the US plans to do with Greenland if it were to come into his nation's possession, promising that he would 'develop' and 'improve' the 'giant mass of land'.
"It’s the United States alone that can protect this giant mass of land, this giant piece of ice, develop it and improve it and make it so that it’s good for Europe and safe for Europe, and good for us," Trump said.
Elsewhere, he accused Denmark of being 'ungrateful' after the US defended it and Greenland in the Second World War.
Trump said: "After the war, we gave Greenland back to Denmark. How stupid were we to do that? But we did it, but we gave it back. But how ungrateful are they now?"
He went on to warn that the US 'and the world face much greater risks than it did ever before', pointing to Russian and Chinese missiles.
"Greenland is a vast, almost entirely uninhabited and undeveloped territory sitting undefended in a key strategic location between the United States, Russia and China," Trump said.
He cited rare earth minerals sitting under the territory’s ice, but then went on to say: "That’s not the reason we need it. We need it for strategic national security and international security.
"This enormous unsecured island is actually part of North America, on the northern frontier of the western Hemisphere, that’s our territory," Trump continued.
"It is therefore a core national security interest of the United States of America."
Topics: Greenland, Donald Trump, US News, Politics, World News
Olivia Burke