Beneath the duvet of a NATO train dubbed “Arctic Endurance”, a Danish regiment and elite forces have been despatched to Greenland, in addition to French alpine troops and German and Swedish troopers, DR mentioned.
It was an actual deployment and never an train, one other supply informed DR.
“There was no attainable ambiguity,” he mentioned. The troops have been deployed with blood for transfusions and explosives, the supply mentioned to again up the declare that it was not an train.
Neither the Danish navy nor its authorities, nor the Greenlandic authorities, have commented on the report.
Trump has repeatedly mentioned he believes the US should management Greenland to make sure its nationwide safety, and has lengthy refused to rule out using navy pressure to get it.
Just like the US, Denmark is a founding member of NATO.
After a number of intense weeks of aggressive remarks that plunged the alliance into its deepest disaster in years, Trump backed down from his threats on Jan 21, saying that he had reached a “framework” settlement on Greenland with NATO’s secretary normal, the small print of which stay imprecise.
Within the weeks that adopted, NATO launched its Arctic Sentry mission to beef up safety within the area, wherein Danish and US forces are taking part, amongst others.
