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20 January 2026

Trump’s Greenland Ambition Is About U.S. Power, Not Alliances

Sir Robin Niblett

Danish and other European governments are struggling to decide how to manage President Donald Trump’s latest demands that Greenland become part of the United States. This week, foreign ministers from Denmark and Greenland are making the case in Washington to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance that Greenland’s security from Russian and Chinese encroachment would best be enhanced through joint investments by the United States and its European allies under the framework of NATO and the 1951 bilateral treaty between the Danish and U.S. governments. European leaders have recently suggested building a new NATO mission, “Arctic Sentry,” modelled on the ongoing “Baltic Sentry” mission.

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