Trump’s Greenland threats do ‘real damage’ to alliances and benefit Putin, warns senior US senator - Europe live

Jeanne Shaheen, the most senior Democrat on the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations said ‘millions of Americans are deeply concerned about the recent rhetoric of the United States taking over Greenland’US Democratic senator Shaheen also has this theory on why Trump turned his attention to Greenland:“A part of me is not sure how much of this is a distraction, to try and take the attention of the American people away from some very real issues that we have in the United States right now.The cost of living is a real concern for Americans [and] Donald Trump got elected saying he was going to address the cost of living. “I believe saner heads will prevail. I believe that because we have institutions that are acting in the United States, on both sides of the aisle in Congress, there is overwhelming support for our relationship for Nato and among the American people.“It’s not safe for Americans. It’s not safe for Danes and the only people who benefit from that sort of world are the autoc...