The Hill,
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Alexander Bolton
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Tuesday dismissed the prospect of deploying the military to seize mineral-rich Greenland, even though top White House adviser Stephen Miller declared the ice-covered territory should rightfully belong to the U.S.
“I think that’s probably getting the cart ahead of the horse. I don’t see military action being an option there,” Thune said of a possible U.S. takeover of Greenland after President Trump deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro over the weekend. Thune noted he led a congressional delegation to Denmark, which controls Greenland, last year.
“I led a delegation in August, of senators, and one of our stops was in Copenhagen.