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Russian President says US plans to take over territory are ‘not eccentric talk’

Vladimir Putin says US President Donald Trump’s stated intention to acquire Greenland was ‘serious’.

Vladimir Putin has warned that Donald Trump's threat to control Greenland is not "eccentric talk" from the US president's administration.

Place names are more than just labels on a map. They influence how people learn about the world around them and perceive their place in it.

US Vice President JD Vance said he would join his wife Usha on a trip Friday to Greenland, adding to pressure on the autonomous Danish territory that Donald Trump wants to take over.

The Greenland ice sheet makes up 80 percent of the world’s largest island. And, it’s melting thanks to human-caused climate change

Stressing that national security was at the forefront of debate, Vance attacked Denmark in February for ‘not doing its job and not being a good ally’

During colonial rule, Denmark enforced assimilation policies, unofficially banning the Inuit language, forced sterilisations and removing children from their families to be placed in Danish homes. Policies which left Greenlanders bitter.

How much would it really cost the European Union to defend itself against aggression? In the immediate term, that question, of course makes us think of Russia, but we can no longer exclude multiple other possibilities, including the potential need to defend territory – say, Greenland – from a former…

In 1957, Hollywood released “The Deadly Mantis,” a B-grade monster movie starring a praying mantis of nightmare proportions. Its premise: Melting Arctic ice has released a very hungry, million-year-old megabug, and scientists and the U.S. military will have to stop it.

Donald Trump has hinted at sending US soldiers to take over Greenland, stating America needs the island “for national security”.