Trump is back at NATO, forgiving Turkey and still trying to buy Greenland
The NATO summit in Turkey just started, and instead of boring bureaucratic talk, we got a classic geopolitical wishlist: lifting missile sanctions on friends and holding European security hostage for a giant icy island.
At the first day of the summit in Ankara, Trump sat down with Turkish President Erdoğan and immediately wiped the slate clean. Those 2019 sanctions America slapped on Turkey for buying a $2.5 billion missile defense system from Russia? Gone. Apparently, there are "no concerns at all" about Russian military hardware anymore because, as the president put it, "we don't want to sanction friends."
But the real comedy gold came when Trump revived his long-standing obsession with buying Greenland. Because Denmark refuses to hand over the world's largest island, Trump threatened to withdraw all U.S. troops from Europe. In his view, if European allies won't let America control Greenland, the U.S. doesn't have to spend a dime protecting them from Russia.
He even warned that Europe better watch its step with immigration and energy, or there "won't be a Europe anymore."
It turns out the price of American military protection in the 21st century is literally a massive, glaciated landmass.
Source: CNBC
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