Overview
- The president said the U.S. will “do something” with the island and his team is weighing options including military use, citing the need to counter Russia and China in the Arctic.
- Leaders of all five parties in Greenland’s parliament issued a joint statement: “We do not want to be Americans,” insisting the island’s future be decided by its people.
- Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned that any U.S. seizure would shatter NATO, and European governments signaled coordinated backing for Denmark’s sovereignty.
- Diplomatic contacts intensified, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio set to meet Danish and Greenlandic representatives next week after initial talks in Washington.
- A Voxmeter poll reported 38% of Danes now believe the U.S. will take Greenland by force, underscoring rising public anxiety as legal barriers make a transfer without consent unlikely.