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Growing number of Republicans say Trump’s Greenland escalation is ‘bad for America’

President Donald Trump’s threats to acquire Greenland is a great victory for Russian President Vladimir Putin and other authoritarian rulers around the world, a Republican lawmaker said.TIME Magazine reported Monday that a number of GOP officials publicly denounced Trump’s attempts to annex an island using military force. But Trump is now doubling down. In an overnight message, Trump linked his pursuit of the Arctic island to his inability to win a Nobel Peace Prize.Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said last week, “If we have to choose between the United States and Denmark…