{"id":126205,"date":"2026-07-09T12:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/126205\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T12:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:19:13","slug":"greenland-deal-tied-to-u-s-military-presence-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/126205\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenland deal tied to U.S. military presence in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   <a href=\"https:\/\/defence24.com\/author-page\/patryk-jagnieza\" target=\"_self\" class=\"article-author-block__avatar-wrap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/YRN6zjPjOsFTEmIc51TxanW10Bn0BuWa5NqsZOvP.5aon.webp\" alt=\"\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\" author=\"Robert Suchy\/Defence24\" caption=\"\" fullscreen=\"https:\/\/cdn.defence24.pl\/2026\/02\/26\/1920xpx\/YRN6zjPjOsFTEmIc51TxanW10Bn0BuWa5NqsZOvP.6isu.webp\" class=\"img article-author-block__avatar img-avatar\"\/><\/a>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/oSQnY56rx16Yk09MPevp4dbXhMNvGliI8sR73SHn.mvod.webp\" alt=\"U.S. President Donald Trump at the NATO summit in Ankara 2026\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\" author=\"@WhiteHouse\/X.com\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"img image-with-caption__image\"\/><br \/>\n        U.S. President Donald Trump at the NATO summit in Ankara 2026<br \/>\n       <br \/>Photo. @WhiteHouse\/X.com<\/p>\n<p>On his way back from the NATO summit in Ankara, United States President Donald Trump said that a final decision regarding the withdrawal of American troops from Europe has not yet been made. He linked the decision to a deal over Greenland and the ongoing conflict with Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-module\">\u201cI haven\u2019t made a final decision yet. A lot will depend on Greenland and whether we strike a very good deal regarding Greenland. If not, I might do it,\u201d Trump said when asked about the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-module\">The president added that the decision would also depend on developments in Iran. Tensions have escalated between the parties in recent days. Currently, the United States is conducting strikes against Iranian targets. Trump commented on the purported shift in European partners\u2019 attitudes toward the conflict. \u201cWhen they had the chance and the opportunity to help, they chose not to. But we kind of forget about that. Now they want to help, everyone wants to go there and they really want to help, but we don\u2019t actually need help. These are small things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-module\">Donald Trump left the Ankara summit in a rather positive mood. He concluded that the allies \u201cmade some concessions\u201d and believed that \u201cNATO has also made progress.\u201d He also praised Spain, a country with which he had been in conflict over its low defence spending and the refusal of local authorities to allow the use of its bases in the Middle Eastern conflict. As recently as Wednesday, the U.S. President had threatened Madrid with a total halt to trade. By the end of the day, however, he acknowledged that Spain \u201ccompletely changed its position\u201d and \u201cwas very generous today.\u201d He also praised the presidents of Turkey, Ukraine, and Syria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-module\">Trump\u2019s position regarding the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Europe remains uncertain. What can be seen is that the U.S. President keeps using this case as leverage against European partners. Denmark will not abandon its authority over Greenland and other European countries seem to support Copenhagen\u2019s position. Europe is also unlikely to actively engage in the Iranian conflict. There is a real chance that Trump ultimately backs down in order not to further damage relations with Europe. If not, we should expect at least a partial withdrawal of troops from the region, especially from those countries that get a lot of criticism from the U.S. President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump at the NATO summit in Ankara 2026 Photo. @WhiteHouse\/X.com On his way back from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,184,71,57,2271,74,21953,76,61629],"class_list":["post-126205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-denmark","tag-donald-trump","tag-europe","tag-greenland","tag-iran","tag-nato","tag-nato-summit","tag-united-states","tag-us-troops-presence"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116889987608495040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}