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How is Greenland different from the little islands owned by France/UK in the Caribbean Sea? US doesn't dream of touching them, sure, Denmark is not exactly UK/

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• dogma1138 9y ago
  Because the US has its own islands and if UK/France turn into North Korea then the US would be very quickly to touch said islands. That said those islands are not in the flight path of Russian bombers and land launched ICBMs. Greenland and previously Iceland were important strategic assets during the Cold War and with hostilities heating up again with Russia they are becoming more important by the day.
• selectodude 9y ago
  Greenland is loaded with ex-US military bases and the Trump admin has indicated that they want to re-populate one of them. Harder to screw around with land when a different country has a larger military presence on that island than you do.