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Trump’s calls to seize Greenland ignite fresh criticism from Republican party

People attend a protest against Donald Trump’s demand that the Arctic island be ceded to the U.S., calling for it to be allowed to determine its own future, in Nuuk, Greenland, on Saturday.
People attend a protest against Donald Trump’s demand that Greenland be ceded to the US, in Nuuk on Saturday. Photograph: Marko Đurica/Reuters

Donald Trump’s escalating calls for the United States to seize or otherwise obtain Greenland has ignited fresh criticism from the president’s own Republican party, with some saying it could hurt the US economically or strain the Nato military alliance.

Such Republicans included the US senators Thom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski, who were part of a bipartisan group to travel to Denmark to discuss concerns in Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory.

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