Charlie Edwards
Ever since Republicans introduced the Make Greenland Great Again Act in January 2025, authorising the president of the United States to open talks with Denmark on acquiring Greenland, Donald Trump has kept up the pressure on Copenhagen, even suggesting he might take the island by force. But Washington cannot override Greenlandic consent or Danish sovereignty without incurring lasting strategic costs.
Following the operation that captured Venezuela’s then-president, Nicolás Maduro, on 3 January 2026, United States President Donald Trump has intensified pressure on Denmark over Greenland. Against this backdrop, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Greenland’s Minister for Statehood and Foreign Affairs, Vivian Motzfeldt, travel to Washington this week to meet US Secretary of State Marco Rubio for trilateral talks on the island’s future. The meeting comes as the Trump administration elevates hemispheric defence, the organising principle underpinning the US 2025 National Security Strategy, to focus on the Western Hemisphere, even as the Arctic case is more being built through political messaging than underpinned by strategy.
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