{"id":14331,"date":"2026-01-22T06:05:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T06:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/the-truth-behind-trumps-greenland-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T06:05:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T06:05:50","slug":"the-truth-behind-trumps-greenland-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/the-truth-behind-trumps-greenland-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth behind Trump’s Greenland ‘deal’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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European governments and their diplomats here in Washington are as relieved as they are exasperated by this extraordinary Greenland show and latest act which played out in the Swiss Alps over the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n

There is no “framework of a deal”. Not yet.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump may claim there is<\/strong>, but that’s only because he needed a way to back down from his threats when he realised that he wasn’t going to be able to own Greenland.<\/p>\n

Trump’s climbdown as it happened<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Is this just Trump’s off ramp? No actual framework of a deal yet?” I asked one diplomat at the heart of it all.<\/p>\n

The response: “Exactly.”<\/p>\n

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Through the “Trump whisperer”, NATO secretary general Mark Rutte, the Danish and Greenlander positions have essentially been reiterated to the American president.<\/p>\n

During a face-to-face meeting in Davos, pre-existing commitments in the 1951 US-Denmark treaty were reemphasised and European nations re-committed to increase their own defence of Greenland.<\/p>\n

When they did precisely this last week, by literally sending senior military officials to Greenland, Trump interpreted it as a provocation against him and issued the tariff threat.<\/p>\n

“I’m so bored of this now…” one European ambassador told me over the weekend, such is the level of weariness over the American president’s antics.<\/p>\n

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This crisis is far from over for NATO<\/strong><\/p>\n

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