The Danish intelligence has accused Russia of forging a 2019 letter to Senator Tom Cotton, claiming to be from Greenland’s foreign minister & alleging there’d be an independence referendum.
Tom Cotton claims to have given Trump the idea to buy Greenland.https://t.co/9GDbPfMJq5 pic.twitter.com/15CtcxpkXK
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) January 15, 2022
I haven’t seen much local attention to this somewhat amusing story, a reboot of some information that emerged in 2019.
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Reuters reports, in a broader story on Russian, Chinese and Iranian espionage efforts, that Trump may have been punked into his nutty idea to buy Greenland by a Russian spy operation, facilitated in part by that expert-on-everything-particularly-foreign-affairs Sen. Tom Cotton.
Cotton was an outspoken proponent of the Greenland purchase and defended Trump for floating the idea. Cotton took credit for taking the idea to the White House.
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The Danish prime minister said at the time the idea was “absurd,” which prompted Trump to cancel a trip to Denmark and to call the prime minister “nasty.” The likelihood of Russian spies being behind the letter addressed to Cotton surfaced in 2019 in Denmark not long after the idea was floated. It was viewed then, as now, as an effort to disrupt relations between Denmark, which has important interests in the North Atlantic, and the U.S.
The issue arose again this week because, as Reuters reports:
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Denmark warned on Thursday of a rising espionage threat from Russia, China, Iran and others, including in the Arctic region where global powers are jostling for resources and sea routes.
Coincidentally, Cotton issued an inflamed warning this week about Chinese espionage in a letter to Arkansas elected officials. He suggested the Chinese might even be infiltrating at the county level. Russia wasn’t mentioned in the Cotton warning.
God help the Chinese spy dispatched to cover the Cleburne County Quorum Court.
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