Trump Arctic Official Pitches Greenland Annexation as Lifeline for Red Lobster
A senior Trump administration official pushing for US control of Greenland has added an unlikely argument to his case: restocking Red Lobster.
Thomas Dans, the White House's Arctic affairs point man, argued this week that annexing Greenland would allow the US to directly tap the island's rich fisheries — cutting out foreign middlemen and keeping product away from China. "My view is that the United States could take all the seafood Greenland could produce, and cut out the middleman, and keep it from China," Dans told The New Yorker.
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