Sen. Tom Cotton, Russian stooge on idea to buy Greenland? [View all]

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I haven’t seen much local attention to this somewhat amusing story, a reboot of some information that emerged in 2019.

Reuters reports, in a broader story on Russian, Chinese and Iranian espionage efforts, that Trump may have been punked into his nutty idea to buy Greenland by a Russian spy operation, facilitated in part by that expert-on-everything-particularly-foreign-affairs Sen. Tom Cotton.

Cotton was an outspoken proponent of the Greenland purchase and defended Trump for floating the idea. Cotton took credit for taking the idea to the White House.

The Danish prime minister said at the time the idea was “absurd,” which prompted Trump to cancel a trip to Denmark and to call the prime minister “nasty.” The likelihood of Russian spies being behind the letter addressed to Cotton surfaced in 2019 in Denmark not long after the idea was floated. It was viewed then, as now, as an effort to disrupt relations between Denmark, which has important interests in the North Atlantic, and the U.S.

Read more: https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2022/01/15/sen-tom-cotton-russian-stooge-on-idea-to-buy-greenland