{"id":677802,"date":"2026-01-06T13:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/677802\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:58:11","slug":"trump-warns-venezuela-to-cooperate-or-risk-new-u-s-military-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/677802\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump warns Venezuela to cooperate or risk new U.S. military attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"6u\">European NATO allies have issued a joint statement on Greenland, warning the United States that they \u201cwill not stop defending\u201d the values of sovereignty and territorial integrity when it comes to the Danish-governed territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"6x\">The statement was issued by French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and Prime Ministers Mette\u00a0Frederiksen of Denmark, Keir Starmer of Britain, Giorgia Meloni of Italy, Donald Tusk of Poland and Pedro S\u00e1nchez of Spain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/250827-trump-plane-greenland-rs-c7a8e5.jpg\"  alt=\"Trump aircraft in Nuuk, Greenland, with a pink sunset behind\" width=\"980\" height=\"654\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"block mb-1\" q:id=\"70\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption mb-0 _caption_1r9t6_8\" q:key=\"Gg_6\">A Trump aircraft arrives in Nuuk, Greenland, in January 2025.\u00a0Emil Stach \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"76\">\u201cThe Kingdom of Denmark \u2014 including Greenland \u2014 is part of NATO,\u201d the statement said. \u201cSecurity in the Arctic must therefore be achieved collectively, in conjunction with NATO allies including the United States, by upholding the principles of the U.N. Charter, including sovereignty, territorial integrity and the inviolability of borders. These are universal principles, and we will not stop defending them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"79\">It added that \u201cthe United States is an essential partner in this endeavor, as a NATO ally\u201d and through a 1951 defense agreement allowing Washington to build military bases on the vast island. \u201cGreenland belongs to its people,\u201d it added. \u201cIt is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European NATO allies have issued a joint statement on Greenland, warning the United States that they \u201cwill not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-677802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115848511710944570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677802","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=677802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}