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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Alexandra Topping Political correspondent

World would be a ‘better place’ if US took over Greenland, says Nigel Farage

The Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage
Farage speaking while on a WEF panel in Davos on Wednesday. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

The world would be a “better, more secure place” if America took over Greenland, Nigel Farage said at Davos, while insisting that he still believed in the sovereignty of nation states.

During a panel at the World Economic Forum’s “America House” in the Swiss ski resort on Wednesday, the Reform UK leader said he had “no doubt” that the world would be safer if a “strong America” was in Greenland “because of the geopolitics of the high north, because of the retreating ice caps and because of the continued expansionism of Russian icebreakers, of Chinese investment”.

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