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Trump backed off threats to impose NATO tariffs over Greenland but floated U.S. sovereignty over bases on the island, a proposition Greenland’s prime minister calls a red line and which Denmark says it cannot concede; negotiations on security arrangements are expected to continue, while Trump’s tariff stance remains a recurring foreign-policy tool.
Greenland negotiations center on expanding a NATO security footprint and U.S. access, but the framework already exists in a 1951 treaty with Denmark that allows U.S. bases and troops there with Copenhagen's approval. Trump’s Davos-era push raised questions about what would actually change; Denmark and Greenland stress sovereignty and note that upgrading facilities and logistics would be costly, while allies express frustration at the approach and warn against destabilizing NATO unity.