The Daily Populous Tuesday January 20th, 2026 evening edition
Authored by newsukraine.rbc.ua and submitted by momentumisconserved

NATO officials are restricting access to intelligence sharing with the US. This comes amid President Donald Trump's encroachments on Greenland, The i Paper reports.

According to the agency's sources, NATO insiders say that some officials have begun to conceal the exchange of intelligence with the US.

The trust that has been built up over decades is being destroyed by Trump's intentions to annex Greenland and his threats to impose tariffs on Alliance member countries.

Anonymous speakers tell the agency that intelligence officials are no longer communicating openly because of the risk that the information could help Trump implement his plan to annex Greenland.

A senior NATO insider tells that this creates tension and mistrust between European and American colleagues in NATO.

He adds that some NATO employees felt that the country they all looked up to and valued had now stabbed them in the back. In turn, American military personnel in NATO are forced to apologize to their colleagues for their country's policies, which creates an atmosphere of mistrust.

This is the most serious deterioration in relations between Washington and its allies since the Suez Crisis of 1956. Therefore, delegations from Britain, France, and Germany are already working in Greenland on a plan to strengthen their military presence as a signal to Trump.

The open exchange of intelligence between the two countries dates back to the secret Sinkov Mission of 1941 on German codes, which was a critical milestone in the exchange of cryptography technology and knowledge between the Allies during World War II.

Since then, the US and the UK have continued to exchange intelligence through an agreement often referred to as Two Eyes and the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, which also includes Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

A source in British intelligence, with whom the agency spoke, said that Trump's latest threats had contributed to the idea that Britain was no longer an ally of the Two Eyes movement, but rather just part of Europe.

Dr. Dan Lomas, a security and intelligence expert at the University of Nottingham, said that Trump's second term in Washington has a destabilizing effect on trust between intelligence services, which could become a long-term problem.

The situation around Greenland has escalated after Donald Trump's statements about the US's intention to purchase the island for $700 billion. The American President justifies this as a strategic necessity, arguing that Denmark is unable to protect the region from being surrounded by the Russian and Chinese fleets.

Due to the refusal of European allies to support this initiative, Trump announced the introduction of tariffs: from February 1, the rate on goods from eight NATO countries (including the United Kingdom, Germany, and France) will be 10%, and from June 1, it will increase to 25%.

In response to pressure from Washington, Denmark has strengthened its military contingent on the island and sent its commander-in-chief there. At the same time, the European Council convened an extraordinary summit to coordinate the allies' defense and economic position in the Arctic.

West-Ad-7350 on January 20th, 2026 at 14:24 UTC »

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17zpvkddpzo

"Europe is at a total loss and, to be honest, it's a pleasure to watch this," gloated the Russian tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets in one of its articles about Greenland.

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-media-rejoices-at-greenland-natos-collapse-11380245

"On the Russian TV show One's Own Truth, hosted by Roman Babayan, political scientist Sergey Stankevich said in Trump trying to take Greenland, Americans are "delivering a catastrophic blow to NATO because one country that is a member of NATO is taking away the territory that rightfully belongs to a country that is also a member of NATO, despite all protests and despite international law."

That's Putin through his state media cheering this on and happy that his puppet in the White House is executing his plans of destroying NATO from within perfectly.

Exciting_Target_9434 on January 20th, 2026 at 14:20 UTC »

trump crying about not getting the nobel prize and having a greenland toddler tantrum.

he's never been told no in his life, hasnt he?

such an entitled, petty, whiny little bitch wimp he is.

and it has real consequences now for the world. the above sentences when read you'd think is about a 5 year old and not an 80 year old president.

meanwhile, epstein...sasha riley...

iDareToDream on January 20th, 2026 at 14:11 UTC »

If the US keeps up this rhetoric, NATO should just start shutting down a US base in Europe every week. The US military's key advantages after technology is logistics and force projection...which are enabled by a network of bases worldwide. But if Trump wants America to be alone and to threaten its allies, then maybe it's not a safe idea to host US bases any more. It will be much harder to make threats if the US loses its entire footprint on the European continent.