Marco Rubio Reveals Just How Serious Donald Trump Is About Buying Greenland
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This is "not a joke" and the issue "needs to be solved," said Trump's new secretary of state.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted that President Donald Trump’s talk about buying Greenland “is not a joke.”
“This is not about acquiring land for the purpose of acquiring land,” Rubio said in an interview on Thursday with Megyn Kelly on SiriusXM.
“This is in our national interest and it needs to be solved,” he added.
The Arctic region is going to become increasingly “critical” and it’s “realistic” to think China will beef up its presence there, said Rubio. That is “completely unacceptable” to U.S. and global security, he continued.
Denmark, of which Greenland is an autonomous Danish territory, would not be able to stop threats from China, Rubio warned.