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John Fetterman To CBS: Acquiring Greenland Is Not Absurd

Published | Video Starts at 00:22

And you know, for me, though, it's also undeniable that 1. This is not a brand new conversation. Truman and other in the past offered to buy it there. And now I also remind people It's actually closer to us geographically, North America, to Denmark and Europe. to technically that too. So it's not an absurd idea. But obviously not showing up with the military and take over. It's the size in terms of the population of Harrisburg. (00:22–00:29)

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Asserts that Greenland is geographically closer to North America than to Denmark and Europe.

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