France warned President-elect Donald Trump to back off from threats to the European Union’s “sovereign borders” Wednesday, a day after he declined to rule out using military force to take Greenland. “There is no question of the EU letting other nations in the world—whoever they might be—attack its sovereign borders,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told public radio broadcaster France Inter. Barrot said he doesn’t expect Trump to “invade” the Danish territory, but observed that the world is witnessing a “return of the law of the strongest.” Greenlandic and Danish leaders have repeatedly insisted the autonomous territory— which Trump has brazenly claimed should be taken over by the U.S. to secure its “economic security”—is not for sale or interested in joining the union. Asked at a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Tuesday if he would pledge not to use military force to seize Greenland or the Panama Canal, Trump replied: “No, I can’t assure you on either of those two, but I can say this, we need them for economic security.” Trump has also fixated on Canada becoming the 51st state—Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that there isn’t “a snowball’s chance in hell” of that happening.
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