Overview
- President Trump said anything short of U.S. control of Greenland is unacceptable, urging NATO to help and tying the demand to the Golden Dome missile-defense plan.
- After a Washington meeting hosted by Vice President J.D. Vance with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Denmark’s Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Greenland’s Vivian Motzfeldt announced a high-level working group despite a fundamental disagreement.
- Denmark said it will immediately expand military activity in and around Greenland with NATO allies, including deployments of aircraft, ships and troops to strengthen Arctic operating capacity.
- Danish broadcaster DR reported, without specifying sources, that an advance military command flew to Nuuk to prepare logistics for possible additional forces.
- European leaders backed Denmark and Greenland’s refusal to cede sovereignty, and U.S. senators introduced a bipartisan bill to block funding for annexing a NATO ally’s territory without that ally’s consent.