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.