The future of Greenland could be resolved by an agreement under which the US would acquire its own sovereign military bases in the territory, much like Britain’s control of airfields in Cyprus.
It is understood that at Davos, Donald Trump was offered an “off-ramp” as Europe has been resisting US pressure to surrender Greenland, by establishing “sovereign base areas” on the self-governing island.
After days of uncertainty over whether the US President would carry out his threat to annex the Arctic land mass, it appears a deal is in the making to offer up permanent US bas
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