Neuestes Grönland: Trump gibt gegenüber Starmer zu, dass er möglicherweise falsch über europäische Truppen auf dem Territorium informiert wurde, sagte Sky News

By Mark Stone, US correspondent

I’m told that Donald Trump conceded to Keir Starmer in their Sunday phone call that he may have been misinformed about the motivation for deploying European troops to Greenland.
The apparent concession by the American president might provide an avenue to de-escalate the tension over Greenland.

Trump’s motivation for threatening tariffs over Greenland was the deployment of a small number of military personnel to Greenland late last week.
He said in his Saturday Truth Social post, announcing the tariff threat, that the troops had been deployed „for reasons unknown“.

His inference was that he was interpreting their presence as a provocation against him. He singled out the countries who had deployed military personnel for the tariff retaliation.
Starmer sought to persuade Trump that the military deployments are about addressing US security concerns, not countering American threats.

On Greenland, de-escalation is the key focus right now. The tone of Starmer’s news conference this morning conveyed this, along with the gravity of the moment.

The key message
Diplomats often talk about ‚off ramps‘ and concerted effort is now being put on finding ways to persuade Trump to remove the tariff threat and return to measured dialogue over how to resolve the Greenland disagreement.

Persuading the US president that the troops are there to address his security concerns is key.
But the more Trump continues to refuse ruling out using the military to take Greenland, the more likely it is that European troops do actually become necessary to defend the Danish territory.

These are truly testing and unprecedented times for the transatlantic alliance.

That explains the ‘pacifying’ press conference I suppose

Until the next Fox News nutjob gets in his head and uk gets 500% tariffs on…oh, erm, shit…

… the hell did he think our one officer was doing there? Lol

I can only hope this is the bullshit he’s going to use to back out of it and „save face“ but I have learned about hoping too much…

guess it is his way of trying to get out of the escalation, guess suddenly the full EU potential „bazooka“ on top of Canada moving product elsewhere, kinda has him in a „problematic“ situation, and this is his way of „trying“ to weasel his way out of it..

Genuinely expect him to invade just before the next round of presidential elections so he can cancel them and stay in power.

What a fucking prat. Am just saying it. We have to tiptoe around this idiot with arguably dementia throwing his toys out of the pram on a weekly basis. Short sharp shock is needed by Europe next time with a calculated dumping of US Treasury Bonds + targeted import tarrifs on luxury US items. Should bring some focus lmao 🤣

Starmer again being the grown in the room, good thing we have someone in charge who seeks to cool any tensions down instead of retaliating

For christ sake stop playing with this cretin and send the SAS to Washington on holiday for a fortnight. Let them do their thing and make the world a better place.

I understand this is about de-escalation, but I also think it’s about time we removed every single US military base from British and European soil. Yes, we’re reliant on them for equipment. But we always will be, so long as we refuse to pull the plug and invest in our own capabilities. Enough is enough with this, imperialism should not ever be tolerated, in our enemies or our allies.

I presume it was the Russian agent Witkoff or Tulsi Gabbard who „misinformed“ him. Seems to always be those two feeding him lies from Russia