Palm Beach (USA) President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he doesn’t rule out the use of military force to take control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, recognizing that U.S. control of the Panama Canal and Greenland is crucial to U.S. national security.
Speaking to reporters lower than two weeks before taking office on Jan. 20, and with a delegation of advisers and advisers, including his son Donald Trump Jr, in Greenland, Trump left open the query of using the U.S. military to secure each territories.
“I’m not going to commit to it,” he said when asked whether he would rule out the use of the army. “Something may have to be done. The Panama Canal is crucial to our country. He added: “We need Greenland for national security reasons.” Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark, a long-time U.S. ally and a founding member of NATO.
Trump, a Republican, supported Canada joining the United States. He said he wouldn’t use military force to achieve this, saying he was counting on “economic force.”
