{"id":56749,"date":"2026-04-07T14:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/56749\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:57:12","slug":"paper-tiger-whats-behind-donald-trumps-renewed-greenland-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/56749\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Paper tiger\u2019: what\u2019s behind Donald Trump\u2019s renewed Greenland threat?"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump\u2019s renewed threat to take Greenland when America is bogged down in a war with Iran<\/a> will only deepen the fracture with Washington\u2019s European allies, according to analysts.Trump has repeatedly criticised Europe since returning to the White House. He has derided Nato as a \u201cpaper tiger\u201d<\/a> that Russian President Vladimir Putin is \u201cnot afraid of\u201d and last week threatened to withdraw the US<\/a> from the transatlantic security alliance.Europe, meanwhile, has pushed back and kept a distance from Trump as the US-Israel war on Iran continues in its sixth week, having plunged the world into an energy crisis<\/a> and leaving European countries among the hardest hit.<\/p>\n

According to Trump on Monday, his displeasure with Nato \u201cbegan with\u201d Greenland, a reference to the strategically located, resource-rich autonomous territory of Denmark.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want Greenland. They don\u2019t want to give it to us. And I said, \u2018bye, bye\u2019,\u201d he said, referring to Denmark and the Nato alliance.<\/p>\n

After the US and Israel launched a military campaign against Iran on February 28, several leading Nato members refused to grant military base access to America for its initial air strikes on Tehran and resisted Washington\u2019s calls to join the armed conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump\u2019s renewed threat to take Greenland when America is bogged down in a war with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[649,31415,31414,108,184,71,31416,57,2271,4174,74,238,17961,17958,652],"class_list":["post-56749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-arctic","tag-beijing-foreign-studies-university","tag-china-institute","tag-copenhagen","tag-donald-trump","tag-europe","tag-fudan-university","tag-greenland","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116364014192438404","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56749","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=56749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}