{"id":179356,"date":"2026-01-16T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/nato-official-allegedly-said-europe-would-take-every-us-base-if-trump-takes-greenland-heres-the-real-story\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T20:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:30:13","slug":"nato-official-allegedly-said-europe-would-take-every-us-base-if-trump-takes-greenland-heres-the-real-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/nato-official-allegedly-said-europe-would-take-every-us-base-if-trump-takes-greenland-heres-the-real-story\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO official allegedly said Europe would take every US base if Trump takes Greenland. Here&#8217;s the real story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/nato-greenland-every-us-base\/\">NATO official allegedly said Europe would take every US base if Trump takes Greenland. Here&#8217;s the real story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/nato-greenland-every-us-base\/\">https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/nato-greenland-every-us-base\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-16 14:24:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.snopes.com\">www.snopes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the key points from the summarized article:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In January 2026, a video circulated online with a purported statement from a NATO official named Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn about the U.S. taking Greenland, claiming that Europe would seize all U.S. military bases if the U.S. took Greenland.<br \/>\n&#8211; Social media users and some news outlets incorrectly attributed the video to Fehlinger-Jahn, a man they thought was connected to NATO.<br \/>\n&#8211; In reality, Fehlinger-Jahn is an Austrian economist and coordinator of a campaign for Austria\u2019s NATO membership, not an official or spokesperson for NATO.<br \/>\n&#8211; Fehlinger-Jahn clarified that the committee he is associated with aims to secure NATO membership for Austria but has no official ties to NATO at the time the video was shared.<br \/>\n&#8211; Fehlinger-Jahn made the remarks in a video posted on his own social media, expressing hypothetical leverage Europe could use against U.S. policies regarding Greenland.<br \/>\n&#8211; The context of the video spread amid speculation from then U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration about acquiring Greenland, a Danish territory.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO official allegedly said Europe would take every US base if Trump takes Greenland. Here&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/mediaproxy.snopes.com\/width\/1200\/https:\/\/media.snopes.com\/2026\/01\/greenland_usa_army_bases_x_user_gunterfehlinger.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179358,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179356\/revisions\/179358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}