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Putin raised Trump’s interest in acquiring Greenland and said Russia will not stand idly and allow NATO to make advances in the Arctic.
‘We will not allow encroachments on the sovereignty of our country and will reliably protect our national interests,’ Putin said at the Arctic Forum in Russia on Thursday.
Putin said that Trump’s plan to annex Greenland is by no means new or unique to his administration.
‘It can look surprising only at first glance and it would be wrong to believe that this is some sort of extravagant talk by the current US administration,’ Putin said.
‘It’s obvious that the United States will continue to systematically advance its geostrategic, military-political and economic interests in the Arctic.’
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