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Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump an­nounced Wednes­day that he was scrap­ping his planned tar­iffs on eight Eu­ro­pean na­tions in an ef­fort to force U.S. con­trol over Green­land, pulling a dra­mat­ic re­ver­sal short­ly af­ter in­sist­ing he want­ed to get the is­land “in­clud­ing right, ti­tle and own­er­ship.”

In a post on his so­cial me­dia site, Trump said he had agreed with the head of NA­TO on a “frame­work of a fu­ture deal” on Arc­tic se­cu­ri­ty, po­ten­tial­ly de­fus­ing ten­sion that had far-reach­ing geopo­lit­i­cal im­pli­ca­tions.

He said “ad­di­tion­al dis­cus­sions” on Green­land were be­ing held con­cern­ing the Gold­en Dome mis­sile de­fense pro­gram, a mul­ti­lay­ered, $175 bil­lion sys­tem that for the first time will put U.S. weapons in space.