Trump threatens to annex Greenland

POTUS SAYS DEAL CAN BE DONE 'EASY WAY' OR 'HARD WAY'

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President Donald Trump again threatened Friday to forcibly annex Greenland, saying that he was "going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not".

In a White House event discussing his plans to have American companies exploit Venezuela's vast oil reserves under the threat of a military blockade, Mr Trump advanced an imperialist vision of American foreign policy, where the US must dominate strategically important neighbouring countries because of the perceived possibility that rival powers might do so first.

"If we don't do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland," Mr Trump said, falsely suggesting that Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark, was surrounded by Chinese and Russian warships. Russia and China are active in the Arctic Circle, but Greenland is not ringed by their ships, and the United States has a military base on Greenland.