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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Jim Manzon

Trump Threatens to Remove All US Troops From Europe as Greenland Fight Overshadows NATO Summit in Ankara

Donald Trump blamed Europe's refusal to hand over Greenland for what he called the damage to his relationship with NATO (Credit: NoLieWithBTC/X)

President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to pull every American soldier out of Europe, turning his long-running fight over Greenland into a direct warning to NATO allies just hours after arriving at the alliance's annual summit in Ankara, Turkey.

'We could remove all of our soldiers out of Europe,' Trump told reporters during a bilateral meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. 'Because as you probably noticed, Europe's a very different place than it was 20 years ago.'

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