\u201cFriends can disagree in private, and that\u2019s fine. That\u2019s part of life, part of politics,\u201d Farage told the senior Republican, who is set to address the British parliament Tuesday. \u201cBut to have a U.S. president threatening tariffs unless we agree that he can take over Greenland, by some means, without it seems even getting the consent of the people of Greenland \u2026 this is a very hostile act. There\u2019s no other way I can put it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Responding, Johnson acknowledged that Trump \u201chas a certain manner in which he goes about doing things,\u201d and accused the U.S. \u201cfar-left media\u201d of taking the president \u201calways literally and not seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think what the president has in mind with Greenland is that he understands the strategic significance of it, the increasing significance,\u201d Johnson argued.<\/p>\n
Farage said he had heard and agreed with Trump\u2019s concerns about Arctic security, and praised the U.S. president for highlighting that \u201cEuropeans haven\u2019t paid enough\u201d toward the continent\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n
But he warned \u201cthis is the biggest fracture in our relationship since Suez in 1956.\u201d That crisis represented a watershed moment in U.S.-U.K. relations, with President Dwight Eisenhower exerting heavy pressure on the U.K. to withdraw an invading force from Egypt.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we don\u2019t get past this,\u201d Farage said of the current rift with the U.S., \u201cit genuinely would be a rupture.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFriends can disagree in private, and that\u2019s fine. That\u2019s part of life, part of politics,\u201d Farage told the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41851,625,459,28722,140,141,14988,20069,59,57,58,6232,50,633,423,12675,1351,156,34123,56,54,158,55],"class_list":["post-380180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-arctic-ocean","tag-british-politics","tag-crisis","tag-davos","tag-defense","tag-donald-trump","tag-dwight-d-eisenhower","tag-egypt","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-greenland","tag-news","tag-nigel-farage","tag-parliament","tag-poll","tag-security","tag-tariffs","tag-u-s-foreign-policy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}