annexation
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Bond strategists say the market isn’t pricing an extreme outcome for Greenland, meaning it doesn’t expect annexation by the U.S. or a military invasion.
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For two weeks in March 1939, as Hitler completed his annexation of Czechoslovakia and Europe braced for war, a lurid murder trial captivated Paris.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has warned that a forcible U.S. annexation of an ally’s territory would be the end of NATO.
What’s Next: Strategists aren’t willing to rule it out entirely, but they see a military annexation of Greenland as highly improbable.
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Though geopolitical strategists aren’t willing to rule it out entirely, they see a military annexation of Greenland as highly improbable.
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