“a very good deal on Greenland”
President Donald Trump, speaking aboard Air Force One after a NATO summit in Ankara, said that any final decision on the number of U.S. troops stationed in Europe would depend heavily on whether a favorable arrangement could be reached regarding Greenland, a Danish territory he has previously suggested the United States should acquire. Trump made the remark while fielding questions about potential troop adjustments, having recently given conflicting signals—one week proposing to send 5,000 troops to Poland, the next suggesting a similar reduction elsewhere. The summit ended on a cooperative note, with Trump praising allies for increasing military spending and urging faster progress toward NATO’s 5-percent-of-GDP target. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer reported no confrontation with Trump over the U.K.’s lack of a clear path to that goal.
- gazetteherald.co.uk ↗︎09 JUL 2026
- northwalespioneer.co.uk ↗︎09 JUL 2026