‘We do also have concerns about President Putin being part of something which is talking about peace,’ the foreign secretary said
Good morning. In his Guardian article published on Tuesday, Gordon Brown, the former PM, said:
Years from now the history books will tell us that [Donald] Trump could have declared a quick victory in negotiations over Greenland – accepting the Danish offer of virtually unlimited military bases and access to Greenland’s 25 critical minerals.
Trump probably isn’t a regular Guardian reader, and so it unlikely that he has been taking Brown’s advice, but we don’t need to wait for the history books; last night, in line with the strategy proposed, Trump backed down from talk of invading or buying Greenland, and instead heralded a more limited “deal” as a negotiating victory.
Here is our story, by Lauren Aratani and Andrew Roth.
