Stavridis says Trump’s plan for Greenland ‘not a crazy idea’
James Stavridis, former NATO supreme allied commander, said he doesn’t think President-elect Trump’s comments about Greenland are “crazy."
“It’s not a crazy idea.… We could do an awful lot in terms of business, investment, box out the Russians, box out the Chinese, and work very closely with Greenland,” he told radio host John Catsimatidis in a Sunday interview on “The Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM.
Stavridis said he thinks Greenland is a “strategic goldmine for the United States," expressing support for Trump's idea.
“It sits at the very top of the North Atlantic. It protects approaches to our own country … It’s geographically very important. It’s full of strategic minerals, rare earth, probably a lot of gold. It’s got a lot of natural resources,” he said earlier in the interview.
“It doesn’t have to become the 51st state, but it can certainly be an economic objective for us,” he added.
“I think that’s how it plays out … The Prime Minister of Greenland said, ‘We are not for sale. But we are open for business.’ I think we ought to take him at his word.”
Trump last week expressed his ambitions for the U.S. to acquire Greenland, the world’s largest island. Greenland Prime Minister Múte Egede said Friday that “Greenland is for the Greenlandic people. We do not want to be Danish, we do not want to be American. We want to be Greenlandic.”
Egede also said that he is “ready” to talk with Trump.
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