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White House Weighs Greenland Acquisition as Denmark and Greenland Seek Rubio Talks

Officials describe an active push to buy the island, with force kept as an option.

Overview

  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he will meet Danish and Greenlandic representatives next week after their request for urgent talks on the territory’s status.
  • The White House says Trump’s team is discussing a potential purchase and maintains that using the U.S. military remains an option at the president’s disposal.
  • Rubio has told lawmakers the preferred path is a financial deal rather than an invasion, and France’s foreign minister said Rubio told him in a call that an invasion was not the approach.
  • European leaders issued a coordinated rebuke asserting Greenland’s future is for Denmark and Greenland to decide, while Denmark’s prime minister warned that any U.S. seizure would mean the end of NATO.
  • Trump questioned NATO’s reliability in new social media posts even as he said the U.S. would still be there for the alliance.