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\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said a US invasion of Greenland \u201cwould make Putin the happiest man on earth\u201d in a \u200bnewspaper interview published on Sunday.
\nSanchez said any military action by the US against Denmark\u2019s vast Arctic island would damage NATO and legitimize the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
\n\u201cIf we focus on Greenland, I have to say that a US invasion of that \u200cterritory would make \u200cVladimir Putin the happiest man \u200cin the \u200bworld. \u200cWhy? Because it would legitimize his attempted invasion of Ukraine,\u201d he said in an interview in La Vanguardia newspaper.
\n\u201cIf the United States were to use force, it would be the death knell for NATO. Putin would be doubly happy.\u201d
\nPresident Donald Trump on Saturday appeared to change tack over \u200cGreenland by vowing to \u200dimplement a wave \u200dof increasing tariffs on European allies until the \u200dUnited States is allowed to buy Greenland.
\nThose tariffs would increase to 25 percent on June 1 and would continue until a deal was reached for the US to purchase Greenland, Trump wrote.<\/p>\n
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said additional 10 percent import tariffs would take effect on February 1 on \u200bgoods from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland and Great Britain \u2014 all already subject to tariffs imposed by Trump.<\/p>\n
Trump has repeatedly insisted he will settle for nothing less than ownership of Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark. Leaders of both Denmark and Greenland have insisted the island is \u200cnot for sale and does not want to be part of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MADRID Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said a US invasion of Greenland \u201cwould make Putin the happiest man on earth\u201d in a \u200bnewspaper interview published on Sunday. Sanchez said any military action by the US against Denmark\u2019s vast Arctic island would damage NATO and legitimize the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. \u201cIf we focus on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-526407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n