{"id":696085,"date":"2026-01-14T20:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/696085\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T20:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:06:18","slug":"germany-to-deploy-reconnaissance-troops-to-greenland-says-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/696085\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany to deploy reconnaissance troops to Greenland, says government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Germany will deploy its first soldiers to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/german-defense-minister-us-greenland-annexation-risks-nato-security\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greenland<\/a> on Thursday, a government spokesperson announced on Wednesday, following similar moves by Sweden and Norway in response to President Donald Trump&#8217;s calls for Washington to gain control of the island.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over a dozen reconnaissance troops will be deployed on Thursday, the spokesperson told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has repeatedly said in recent weeks that the strategically located and mineral-rich island is vital to U.S. security, and that the United States must own it to prevent Russia or China from occupying it.<\/p>\n<p>He has said all options are on the table for securing the territory, rhetoric that has severely strained relations between Europe and the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany will deploy its first soldiers to Greenland on Thursday, a government spokesperson announced on Wednesday, following similar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,366,209935,2783],"class_list":["post-696085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-greenland","tag-reconnaissance-troops","tag-troops"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115895257222905314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696085","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=696085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}