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From August 2024 to February 2025, favorability in Germany fell from 52 percent to 32 percent, and in Denmark — amid Trump’s threats to overtake Greenland by force — positive views of the U.S. slid to 20 percent.
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Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 7 May 2025
Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in buying the island, or the US taking it by force or economic coercion, even as NATO ally Denmark and Greenland have firmly rejected the idea.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 4 May 2025
Meanwhile, Trump kept talking about making Canada the fifty-first state and refused to disavow the possibility of taking the Panama Canal by force.
—Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
But for all of Russia’s claims to Crimea, the higher principle is that territorial disputes can’t be settled by force.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2025
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Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 7 May 2025
Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in buying the island, or the US taking it by force or economic coercion, even as NATO ally Denmark and Greenland have firmly rejected the idea.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 4 May 2025
Meanwhile, Trump kept talking about making Canada the fifty-first state and refused to disavow the possibility of taking the Panama Canal by force.
—Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
But for all of Russia’s claims to Crimea, the higher principle is that territorial disputes can’t be settled by force.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2025
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“By force.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20force. Accessed 19 May. 2025.
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