Putin warns world to take Trump’s Greenland annexation threat seriously: ‘Not eccentric talk’

Putin warns Trump's Greenland annexation threat is 'not eccentric talk'Source: Reuters

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00:00Suffice it to say that the United States plans to support the accession of Greenlands,

00:10at first glance it might be a surprise for anybody and it would be a grave mistake to

00:16believe that these are just some eccentric talk of a new American administration, nothing of the kind.

00:23In fact, such plans were obvious back in the 1860s. Back then, the US administration

00:36considered the possibility of annexation of Greenland and Iceland, but this idea

00:42was not supported by Congress at that time. Let me remind you that

00:46by 1869, the American papers laughed at the purchase of Alaska. The deal was called a

00:59folly. Alaska was called an icebox and Paula Bear's garden of Henry Johnson,

01:09the US president at the time,