00:01Denmark and its allies reportedly deployed troops to Greenland in January because they feared a U.S.
00:07invasion, Danish broadcaster DR has reported. DR said it had seen a military operations order
00:14dated the 13th of January, which served as the basis for the deployment of Danish forces
00:19in the autonomous Danish territory as tensions spiked over U.S. President Donald Trump's bid
00:25to annex it. The document described an operation organizing the defense of Greenland
00:31immediately after the U.S. operation in Venezuela to oust President Nicolás Maduro.
00:37In January, several EU nations, including France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and others,
00:43sent troops to Greenland under a Danish-led NATO exercise dubbed Arctic Endurance.
00:48But several military officials told DR that it was a real deployment and not an exercise.
00:55Trump has repeatedly said he believes the U.S. must control Greenland to ensure its national
01:00security and long refused to rule out the use of military force to get it.
01:06After several intense weeks of aggressive remarks that plunged the alliance into its deepest crisis
01:11in years, Trump backed down from his threats in late January, announcing that he had reached
01:17a framework agreement on Greenland with NATO's Secretary General, the details of which remain vague.
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