Former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Carla Sands told Newsmax Friday that President-elect Donald Trump’s interest in purchasing Greenland may be a “real threat to the Kingdom of Denmark,” but U.S. acquisition of the territory is a “common-sense solution” to combating the presence of China and Russia in the region.

Sands explained to Newsmax’s “Wake Up America” that Greenland is a country that falls under the umbrella of Danish control.

“Denmark is a kingdom, and it has three countries: Denmark, the small country; and then the Faroe Islands, which is a very small chain of islands … near the Scottish Shetland Islands, north of Scotland; and then it has Greenland, which is one-third the size of the continental U.S.,” she said. “It’s actually part of North America.”

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