{"id":158437,"date":"2026-10-06T14:17:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158437"},"modified":"2026-10-06T14:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:17:33","slug":"iceland-is-critical-outpost-for-security-rubio-says-during-visitunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158437","title":{"rendered":"Iceland is \u2018critical outpost\u2019 for security, Rubio says during visitUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that Iceland had long been a \u201ccritical outpost\u201d for security during a visit to the island, as his country pushed for greater US influence in the Arctic region.<br \/>\nHis trip comes after US President Donald Trump has stirred up the power balance in the region by making threats to buy or annex Greenland.<br \/>\nThe United States signed a security pact with Denmark and Greenland in late September that will allow Washington to establish two new military bases&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3369952\/iceland-critical-outpost-security-rubio-says-during-visit?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that Iceland had long been a \u201ccritical outpost\u201d for security during a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158437"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}