Stockholm announced it would contribute JAS 39 Gripen fighter aircraft to NATO’s newly announced Arctic Sentry mission to Greenland on Thursday, in the wake of a push by US President Donald Trump to annex the autonomous Danish territory. For weeks, Trump justified his threats to use economic sanctions or military force to gain control of the mineral-rich Arctic island in terms of the threat posed by expanding Russian and Chinese spheres of influence. NATO’s launch of Arctic Sentry on Wednesday

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