Overview
- Foreign ministers Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Vivian Motzfeldt are meeting Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the White House to press sovereignty over Greenland, with talks scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m. ET.
- President Donald Trump has reiterated he wants to acquire Greenland rather than lease it, the White House posted a provocative photomontage of Trump studying a giant map of the island, and officials have not explicitly ruled out military options as reported.
- Greenland and Denmark reject any U.S. claim; Greenland’s leader Jens-Frederik Nielsen said the island would choose Denmark over the U.S., and Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned an attack on a NATO ally would upend the alliance.
- Bipartisan pushback in Washington includes a Senate proposal by Lisa Minkowski and Jeanne Shaheen to bar annexation or control of a NATO ally’s territory without consent, a similar House effort, and a congressional delegation to Copenhagen led by Senator Chris Coons with Republican Thom Tillis.
- NATO and EU partners are weighing a stronger Arctic presence, including a proposed surveillance mission dubbed Arctic Sentry backed by Germany and the UK, as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz signals the U.S. will likely take part.