The White House has said using the US military is always an option, but few analysts believe it a likely one
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The Trump administration has said repeatedly that the US needs to gain control of Greenland, a mineral-rich, largely self-governing part of Denmark with foreign and security policy run from Copenhagen.
The White House has said using the US military is “always an option”, but few analysts believe an armed operation is likely and France’s foreign minister has said the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has ruled out the possibility of an invasion.
Last weekend’s events in Venezuela and Donald Trump’s unpredictability mean nothing can ever really be excluded, however, and the US has other ways of fulfilling the president’s territorial ambitions. Here are some of the options.
