Overview
- President Donald Trump said NATO should help the United States take control of Greenland, calling any alternative unacceptable and tying the island to the Golden Dome missile-defense project.
- After meeting Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Danish and Greenlandic ministers reiterated a fundamental disagreement with Washington and announced a new high-level working group.
- Denmark said it will immediately expand its military presence in and around Greenland with NATO partners, with officials outlining aircraft, ships and troops for Arctic operations and local media reporting an advance command on the ground.
- European responses gathered pace, with Sweden confirming its first soldiers have arrived in Greenland, Norway announcing similar plans, and France set to open a consulate in Nuuk on February 6.
- In Washington, a bipartisan Senate bill was introduced to bar Defense and State Department funds from being used to annex allied territory without consent, while Greenlandic leaders urged unity and rejected any transfer of sovereignty.