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During Donald Trump's first time in office, when he said he wanted to acquire Greenland, many dismissed this as hyperbole, a nonsense even.
But now, days away from taking office a second time, he seems on an expansionist role, taunting Canada it should become the USA's 51st state, that he wants America to reacquire the Panama Canal, and insisting that Greenland must become a US Property for strategic security.
He said people really don't even know.
If Denmark has any legal right to it, but if they do, they should give it up because we need it for national security.
That's for the free world.
I'm talking about protecting the free world.