Overview
- Small contingents from France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands have reached Greenland for a Danish-led reconnaissance and exercise mission intended to signal allied unity.
- Denmark plans a larger, more permanent military presence in Greenland through 2026 and will invite allied forces to participate on a rotational basis, according to Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen.
- White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said European deployments will not affect President Trump’s priority to acquire Greenland, which the administration frames as a U.S. national‑security requirement.
- After talks in Washington, Danish and Greenlandic leaders reported fundamental disagreements with the United States even as the parties agreed to establish a high‑level working group, and Copenhagen reiterated that any U.S. takeover is out of the question.
- Russia’s embassy criticized the European deployments as a NATO build‑up, while the U.S. continues operating the Pituffik (Thule) Space Base in northwest Greenland with roughly 200 personnel.