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The US will be able to base soldiers and equipment permanently in Denmark after the Scandinavian country reversed decades of foreign policy to become the last nation in the region to sign a defence co-operation agreement with Washington.
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year has pushed Sweden, Finland and Denmark all to sign such deals with the US in recent days, a way of deepening security ties with the main military force in the west.
“We are sending a clear signal that Denmark, together with the US, is taking even greater responsibility for Danish security — and that is absolutely necessary,” Mette Frederiksen, Denmark’s prime minister, said on Tuesday.
“The goal is: we must ensure peace not only now, but for the generations that come after us.”
Denmark has since the 1950s had a policy of not allowing foreign troops or nuclear weapons on its…