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NATO deploys to Greenland to keep Trump onside A Public First poll conducted for POLITICO across five countries found that a majority of people in the U.S., Canada, France, the U.K. and Germany said Trump was serious about his effort to take over Greenland, with most saying he was doing so to gain natural resources and to increase U.S. control of the Arctic. Only a minority felt he was motivated by any threat from Russia and China. Idle threat After repeatedly refusing to rule out the use of force to take Greenland, the U.S. president finally walked back his campaign to acquire the Danish territory last month. The climbdown was helped by a pledge from Rutte and allies that NATO would take Arctic security more seriously. But experts remain deeply skeptical about the military need for such a venture. After repeatedly refusing to rule out the use of force to take Greenland, U.S. President Donald Trump finally walked back his campaign to acquire the Danish territory last month. | Shawn Thew/EPA “I do not think that NATO has a capability gap in the Arctic … the United States has the ability to deploy its capabilities to Greenland to defend the alliance,” said Matthew Hickey, an analyst and former... https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-launches-symbolic-arctic-sentry-mission-to-placate-us-donald-trump-on-greenland/