As part of the move, which the Trump administration has communicated to some European capitals, the U.S. will eliminate roughly 200 positions from the NATO entities that oversee and plan the alliance's military and intelligence operations, said the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss private diplomatic conversations.

The US president earlier said Nato would be in "the ash heap of history" without him, after doubling down on his Greenland demands.

The planned reductions to parts of the alliance’s force structure and some advisory groups mark the Trump administration’s latest move to scale back military investment in Europe’s defense.

Trump has long said he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who recently won the prize for her fight for democracy, gave her prize medal to Trump. But the Norwegian Nobel Committee said the award can’t be revoked, shared or transferred.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the bid by U.S. President Donald Trump to take over Greenland poses a “deep crisis” for NATO and raises questions about the alliance’s preservation as a single military-political bloc.

Stocks are falling on Wall Street after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to hit eight NATO members with new tariffs as tensions escalate over his attempts to assert American control over Greenland.

"It's crucial for Finland that the joint training activities planned by Nato extend directly onto Finnish soil," Brigadier General Manu Tuominen tells Yle.

Of all the reasons why critics say the U.S. shouldn’t take over Greenland, the threat to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization stands out as a particularly existential one for the post-WWII world order.