Europe would be 'very unwise' to retaliate, says US as it continues push for Greenland purchase

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European governments should not retaliate against any measures taken by the United States in their dispute over Greenland, said US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos on Jan 19.  Bessent urged Europe not to doubt the US administration's intentions to buy Greenland for its national security in the Arctic.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00EU leaders are consulting intensively. Engagement with the US is continuing at all levels.

00:30I spoke to President Trump and evidently there are a lot of inbounds and I think everyone

00:50should take the president at his word. I don't know anything about the president's letter

00:55to Norway and I think it's a complete canard that the president will be doing this because

00:59of the Nobel Prize. The president is looking at Greenland as a strategic asset for the

01:05United States. We are not going to outsource our hemispheric security to anyone else.

01:11Great. I think that will probably be the last one for today, guys.

01:15Last one.

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