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Credit: World Economic Forum. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Donald Trump has doubled down on his threats to annex Greenland, saying only the US could secure the Arctic territory, but ruled out using force.Appearing to rule out taking the territory with military intervention, Mr Trump told the World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alps: "I don’t have to use force, I don’t want to use force, I won’t use force.”

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00:00We never asked for anything, and we never got anything.
00:06We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force,
00:11where we would be, frankly, unstoppable.
00:15But I won't do that.
00:18Okay? Now everyone's saying, oh, good.
00:21That's probably the biggest statement I made, because people thought I would use force.
00:26I don't have to use force. I don't want to use force. I won't use force.
00:30All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland,
00:35where we already had it as a trustee,
00:38but respectfully returned it back to Denmark not long ago,
00:42after we defeated the Germans, the Japanese, the Italians, and others in World War II.
00:48We gave it back to them.
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