The United States said on Monday it had approved a US$1.8 billion sale of patrol aircraft to Denmark, despite renewed tension after an envoy of US President Donald Trump called again for seizing Greenland.<\/p>\n
The State Department said it approved a request from Denmark to buy the P-8A patrol and reconnaissance system from Boeing<\/a>, which will include up to three aircraft.The sale will \u201csupport the foreign policy goals and national security objectives of the United States by improving the security of a Nato<\/a> ally that is a force for political stability and economic progress in Europe\u201d, the State Department said in a notification to Congress.A week earlier, the State Department approved a separate sale of nearly US$1 billion in air-to-air missiles to Denmark<\/a>.The United States has long pushed Nato allies to pay more on defence, with Trump<\/a> seeking to reduce the US footprint in Europe despite Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.But Europeans have been shocked by Trump\u2019s tone on Greenland<\/a>, which is a semi-autonomous Danish territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States said on Monday it had approved a US$1.8 billion sale of patrol aircraft to Denmark,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[3942,2104,8179,365,299,366,20927,20300,2821,202093,332,85141,14014,1757,657,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-661238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-arctic","9":"tag-boeing","10":"tag-congress","11":"tag-denmark","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-greenland","14":"tag-jeff-landry","15":"tag-louisiana","16":"tag-nato","17":"tag-p-8a","18":"tag-russia","19":"tag-state-department","20":"tag-the-united-states","21":"tag-trump","22":"tag-ukraine","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115805419136341614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}