Overview
- A 15-member Bundeswehr team arrived in Nuuk alongside contingents from Norway, Sweden, Finland, France, the UK and the Netherlands for a Denmark-led reconnaissance of the island.
- The teams are surveying logistics and security to gauge whether joint NATO exercises can proceed and how European partners can reinforce protection of the Arctic territory.
- President Trump restated that the United States seeks control of Greenland, threatened tariffs on countries that oppose the plan and declined to rule out leaving NATO to achieve it.
- European governments are weighing leverage options, with diplomatic reporting citing potential limits on US access to certain bases in Africa and the Middle East, and a German lawmaker floating a World Cup boycott only as a last resort.
- Former NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg called for a clear allied response, Russia condemned the deployments as a provocation, and organizers in Denmark tightened event security as protests in Greenland were planned.