The US and NATO can avoid catastrophe over Greenland and emerge stronger. Here’s how.
Atlantic Council • • world
Key Points:
- US President Donald Trump announced escalating tariffs on Denmark and European nations until they agree to sell Greenland to the United States, deepening the transatlantic divide over the island.
- Three concurrent efforts aim to prevent conflict: diplomatic talks via a US-Danish-Greenlander working group, congressional legislation to block military action against Greenland, and increased Danish and NATO military presence in the Arctic as deterrence.
- Despite longstanding US security interests in Greenland, the Trump administration’s current approach appears driven more by expansionist ambitions than specific security or economic needs, with talk of annexation and use of force raising tensions.
- European NATO members have increased military exercises and deployments in Greenland in response, while US Congress has introduced bipartisan bills to prohibit funding for any military action
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