Overview
- The UK has discussed sending troops, ships and aircraft to Greenland with France and Germany, and NATO’s military staff were tasked on January 8 to outline Arctic security options, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
- Brussels is drawing up contingency sanctions that could hit major U.S. tech platforms, banks and even American bases in Europe if Washington pursues annexation, the paper also reported.
- Financial Times reports that NATO’s public silence on Trump’s Greenland claims is alarming European capitals, while the New York Times says Denmark’s prime minister was shocked by the rhetoric.
- Trump said Venezuela has begun releasing political prisoners after the January 3 operation that brought Nicolás Maduro to New York to face narcotics charges, and Caracas rejected a U.S. warning about unsafe conditions in the country.
- In the region, Colombia’s Gustavo Petro warned his country lacks air defenses and said any move against Bogotá would risk civil war, while a top FARC dissident urged rebel groups to form a united bloc.