Nordics Adapt to Trump’s Transactional Politics
Finland and Sweden are pursuing defense agreements with the US, and military deals are on the table
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Nordic leaders expected that Donald Trump would drastically alter geopolitics after taking office for the second time. But few would have guessed that the US would challenge Denmark’s sovereignty by threatening to take over Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory within the kingdom — or that dealmaking would become a main mode of diplomacy.