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Mike Johnson: “Greenland has strategic importance to [the US] because of…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker Johnson Joins Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg on BBC One

Published | Video Starts at 00:28

To many of our politicians, that would be an absolute violation of the things that our two countries believe in. It's not your land. Well, it's not our land, but Greenland has strategic importance to [the US] because of its geography, its placement. But not just to the US but to all freedom loving people everywhere. We live in a dangerous time and a dangerous world. And the President's recognition of that is not something new. (00:28–00:33)

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Asserts the strategic importance of Greenland to the US due to its geography.

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