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Because the US has its own islands and if UK/France turn into North Korea then the US would be very quickly to touch said islands.

That said those islands are not in the flight path of Russian bombers and land launched ICBMs.

Greenland and previously Iceland were important strategic assets during the Cold War and with hostilities heating up again with Russia they are becoming more important by the day.




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