Overview
- Germany will fly 13 Bundeswehr personnel to Nuuk on Thursday to join a short reconnaissance mission requested by Denmark.
- Denmark has increased its military presence on the island with support from Sweden and Norway, launching exercises involving aircraft, ships and troops.
- A Washington meeting between Danish and Greenlandic ministers and senior U.S. officials revealed a fundamental disagreement but established a high-level working group to convene within weeks.
- President Trump reiterated that only U.S. control is acceptable, citing Russian and Chinese activity in the Arctic and Greenland’s importance to the proposed Golden Dome missile-defense plan.
- Institutional resistance mounted as the European Parliament condemned the takeover rhetoric and U.S. senators introduced a bipartisan bill to bar annexing a NATO partner’s territory without consent.