The United States said on Monday it had approved a US$1.8 billion sale of patrol aircraft to Denmark, despite renewed tension after an envoy of US President Donald Trump called again for seizing Greenland.<\/p>\n
The State Department said it approved a request from Denmark to buy the P-8A patrol and reconnaissance system from Boeing<\/a>, which will include up to three aircraft.The sale will \u201csupport the foreign policy goals and national security objectives of the United States by improving the security of a Nato<\/a> ally that is a force for political stability and economic progress in Europe\u201d, the State Department said in a notification to Congress.A week earlier, the State Department approved a separate sale of nearly US$1 billion in air-to-air missiles to Denmark<\/a>.The United States has long pushed Nato allies to pay more on defence, with Trump<\/a> seeking to reduce the US footprint in Europe despite Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.But Europeans have been shocked by Trump\u2019s tone on Greenland<\/a>, which is a semi-autonomous Danish territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States said on Monday it had approved a US$1.8 billion sale of patrol aircraft to Denmark,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,35160,16794,1340,34356,1076,7261,16226,6098,5855,3,184239,1206,4121,3665,3479,1208,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-376830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-arctic","tag-boeing","tag-congress","tag-denmark","tag-europe","tag-greenland","tag-jeff-landry","tag-louisiana","tag-nato","tag-news","tag-p-8a","tag-russia","tag-state-department","tag-the-united-states","tag-trump","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}