Overview
- Speaking aboard Air Force One, Trump said the United States seeks ownership rather than a lease, dismissing allied proposals for expanded NATO activity in the high north and again invoking Russia and China as threats.
- He mocked the territory’s defenses and suggested NATO consequences would be secondary, even as Denmark has warned any forcible move could spell the alliance’s undoing.
- Leaders of all parties in Greenland’s parliament issued a joint statement rejecting any U.S. takeover and emphasizing that only Greenlanders can decide the island’s future.
- Germany’s foreign and finance ministers are in Washington for meetings including talks with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, while allies weigh an ‘Arctic Sentry’ surveillance mission to strengthen regional security.
- Media reports say U.S. special-operations planners were asked to draft options for a forcible operation, a claim not confirmed by officials and reportedly encountering resistance within the Pentagon.