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- take ownership of Greenland, moving instead toward a deal that would allow the U. S.
- to place more troops, bases and military hardware on the island, a territory of Denmark.
- In an interview with Fox Business, he said, “We’re getting everything we wanted — total security, total access to everything.”Add NBC News to GoogleTrump reveals details of Greenland ‘framework’ plan02:27Yet all of that was available to Trump from the start, without the drama that sent the NATO alliance barreling toward an internal crisis, a Danish official told NBC News on Thursday. The only nonnegotiable point for Denmark was that Greenland shouldn’t be absorbed by the U. S., the person added."We can discuss increased military presence and more troops.
- You name it, basically, you can have it" under existing treaties, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Trump’s reassurance that America’s military won’t seize Greenland at gunpoint settled the financial markets, as did his pledge to forgo tariffs on Europe as a prod to relinquish Greenland. But his Greenland gambit clawed away some of the trust that underpins a successful alliance, said diplomats, government officials and foreign policy experts. Sen.
- Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, told NBC News, “As an American, as an Alaskan, I was concerned that in this global forum the relationships that have been built up with so many, perhaps, were fractured.”Trump’s announcement at Davos that he won’t use force helped ease tensions, though some foreign policy experts and officials said his bid to swallow up Greenland sowed distrust in European capitals that won’t soon dissipate.“The damage has already been done,” said Aurel Sari, a professor of international law at the University of Exeter in England.
