Donald Trump warned by France against sending US military to seize Greenland

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : Trump, who returns to the White House for a second term as president on January 20, also floated the idea of turning Canada into a US state, said he would demand far higher defence spending from NATO allies and promised to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
42% : Asked at a free-wheeling, hour-long press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida whether he could assure the world he would not use military or economic coercion as he tries to gain control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, Trump said, "No, I can't assure you on either of those two.
38% : Still two weeks away from taking office, Trump has begun outlining an aggressive, expansionist foreign policy with little regard to diplomatic considerations or the concerns of US allies, including threatening a wave of economic tariffs.
25% : Trump, who claims he can end the Ukraine war in a day, said NATO members should spend 5% of their gross domestic product on defence, a significant increase from the current 2% target.
19% : Trump also repeated his threat that "all hell will break out in the Middle East" if Palestinian Hamas militants do not release by the time he takes office hostages it abducted from Israel on October.
17% : "Trump criticized American spending on Canadian goods and military support for Canada, saying the US derives no benefits from doing so, and called the border between the two countries an "artificially drawn line.
15% : France warned Donald Trump against trying to seize control of Greenland by military force or economic coercion.

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