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Denmark, which has a longstanding policy of not allowing foreign troops to be stationed within its borders, announced Thursday that U.S. troops may soon be welcome in the Scandinavian country in part of the effort to bolster European defense forces.
“An increase to the American commitment here in Denmark will improve the access of the United States to the European continent,” Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, said in an interview. Copenhagen said tensions in Ukraine were not the basis of its decision.
The U.S. would not open a base in the country. The U.S. troops would train and conduct exercises alongside Danish soldiers, the Financial Times reported. The report pointed out that Norway and other countries have said they will open up to U.S. troops on a rotational basis.
The report pointed out that there are 500 U.S. troops stationed in Lithuania, and the country’s president has expressed an interest in taking on more.
Copenhagen hopes to have a similar defense pact that Norway currently has with the U.S., the report said.
Norway, which shares a border with Russia, signed a new agreement with the U.S. back in April that will allow the U.S. to build facilities at three Norwegian airfields and a naval base, according to Reuters.
Oslo was clear that these would not amount to a separate U.S. base. Norway, a founding member of NATO, does not allow the stockpiling or deployment of nuclear weapons.
The move is not universally embraced in Copenhagen. Sikandar Siddique, the leader of the Independent Greens, essentially called the country’s relationship with Washington toxic.
He said the partnership has already pulled Denmark into an “illegal war in Iraq and a hopeless mission in Afghanistan.” He also expressed dismay with the desire by some of his colleagues to be tied closer to the “aggressive American foreign and defense policy.”
TRENDPOST: Americans are constantly told they live in the world’s greatest democracy. And, with fewer U.S. products to sell overseas, Washington justifies exporting its brand of democracy by attacking sovereign nations and overthrowing governments under the guise that freedom-loving people yearn for it… people who are slaughtered by the millions that cost American taxpayers tens of trillions.
And now, unreported by the mainstream Presstitutes, is the United States ramping up it murderous role in the Yemen War which, according to the United Nations, is the worst humanitarian crisis on earth… an atrocity that is out of the mainstream news and the Russia/Ukraine conflict makes the headlines.
AntiWar.com reported the Yemeni Shia group holds the Biden administration responsible for the Saudi-led coalition’s escalation in the war that has slaughtered tens of thousands of civilians.
“There is an escalation by the countries of aggression against our country, under clear directives from America, and therefore we escalated our operations against them in response to that,” Houthi Deputy Information Secretary Nasreddin Amer said. (See “MURDEROUS YEMEN WAR: MILLIONS IN PERIL. WHO CARES?” 19 Oct 2021)
America itself functions as a democracy in name only. The United States is run by two political gangs, a Republican and Democrat crime syndicate, both of which boast long track records of starting murderous wars based on outright lies and of stealing citizens’ money under the guise of taxes.