Belgium downplays Greenland tension with ‘Uncle Sam’ as Europe steps up presence

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Belgium is not heading to Greenland to pick a fight with Washington, Defense Minister Theo Francken said Friday, pushing back against suggestions that a growing European military presence on the Arctic island amounts to a show of force against the United States. “It now looks as if we’re going there to say: come on, Uncle Sam, let’s have a good fight and see who wins,” Francken said in a television interview with VRT . “That is absolutely not the intention,” he added. Francken said Belgium will

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