📢 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 Time to dump Trump? Europeans whisper last-resort options to save Greenland
The alliance is already broken, officials say, so why not threaten to cut ties with America on military collaboration?
“Why should the US continue to have access to these bases, or receive support from allies’ naval assets, air forces, or even intelligence services, if it tries to take sovereign territory from a NATO member like Denmark?”
“The question is so sensitive that diplomats are at pains to keep it away from the mainstream debates between governments in the summit rooms of the EU or NATO.”
Logistically, closing U.S. bases would involve “profound challenges,” said Geoffrey Corn, director of the Center for Military Law and Policy at Texas Tech University, like managing troop departures and legal claims for the value of military assets. But legally, “it’s really a matter of domestic law” for European countries that want to terminate the U.S. presence, he said. “That’s their prerogative.”
“The transatlantic relationship is changing,” one official from an EU country said. “It’s not going back.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-europe-greenland-threat-military-defense-allies/
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Time to dump Trump? Europeans whisper last-resort options to save Greenland – POLITICO
The alliance is already broken, officials say, so why not threaten to cut ties with America on military collaboration?
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