Major European powers have unified to defend Greenland after top White House aide Stephen Miller suggested the U.S. could use military force to seize the territory. The White House confirmed on Tuesday that acquiring the Arctic island is a "national security priority" and that utilizing the military remains an option. This escalation has sparked international alarm and immediate pushback from several NATO allies.

The controversy intensified after the recent U.S. military operation in Venezuela and a social media post by Katie Miller, the wife of Stephen Miller, showing Greenland draped in a U.S. flag with the caption “SOON.” President Donald Trump reiterated on Sunday that the U.S. needs the mineral-rich territory "very badly." Despite Greenland being a semi-autonomous part of Denmark, the Trump administration has repeatedly challenged Danish sovereignty over the region.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned that any U.S. attack on Greenland would signify the end of the NATO alliance. Stephen Miller argued that military intervention might not even be necessary because "nobody is going to fight the United States" over the island. Leaders from the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Poland issued a joint statement emphasizing that Greenland’s future must be decided solely by its own people and Denmark.

Greenland’s Prime Minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, has urged the U.S. to abandon "fantasies about annexation" and engage through proper diplomatic channels. European allies are now meeting in Paris to discuss collective security and the implications of U.S. threats against a fellow NATO member. The situation remains tense as the U.S. administration continues to evaluate a "range of options" for the acquisition.

Key Takeaways

The White House officially stated that using the U.S. military to acquire Greenland is "always an option" for the commander-in-chief.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen declared that a U.S. attack on the territory would lead to the total collapse of the NATO alliance.

Seven major European nations issued a joint statement asserting that Greenland’s sovereignty is a matter for Denmark and the Greenlandic people alone.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/06/stephen-miller-donald-trump-threats-take-over-greenland

26 minutes ago, Bacon1 said:

Major European powers have unified to defend Greenland

How. What can the EU in all reality do to stop Trump doing this? NATO needs to deploy substantial assets (especially naval) to the region and Demark needs to allow for a substantial US base and forces. The only other option is what Trump is forecasting and that's a US takeover. There's no doubt of the strategic importance in this era of shifting global power balance.

I can see a negotiated settlement.

The US can lease Greenland. It's nearer to Canada (16 miles) than it is to the US (750 miles).

If Trump takes Greenland, it's a foregone conclusion he'll take Canada.

Yelps, if Trump annexed Greenland. ICE would have to round up all those foreigners.

42 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

How. What can the EU in all reality do to stop Trump doing this? NATO needs to deploy substantial assets (especially naval) to the region and Demark needs to allow for a substantial US base and forces. The only other option is what Trump is forecasting and that's a US takeover. There's no doubt of the strategic importance in this era of shifting global power balance.

There have been active U.S. Military Bases on Greenland since the 1950s.

Denmark and Greenland are cooperating allies of the U.S.

Trump is out of control.

It's doable as Greenland has free healthcare and education so trump has to introduce privatisation as his first act so Greenlanders costs rise to the level that Greenland is bankrupt. Then he will have to spend a lot of money to Make Greenland Great Again.

A small obstacle, but if he doesn't do that, trump has to explain to Americans why free stuff is ok in American Greenland but not in America.

America could take Greenland with a rubber dinghy and half a dozen Special Forces female recruits armed with crossbows, and the Danes could do nothing about it other than grumble to the UN. The UN would then issue a memorandum citing the illegality of breaking "international law" which is a total myth in their own little minds.

Europe and the UK have made themselves militarily irrelevant in this new multi-polar environment, in which "might is right", it's kind of a trip back to the future.

The current world stage is looking more and more like the 30's - the superpowers (defined as a country which has actually maintained its military strength and not squandered their taxpayer money on DEI and sacked their transgender admirals) is jostling for position, and Europe is once again rearranging the deckchairs because they can't afford to put gas in their out of date bi-planes.

About time Europe wakes up. But the conversion from NATO to EUTO won't happen without a special War Tax.

42 minutes ago, bunnydrops said:

Yelps, if Trump annexed Greenland. ICE would have to round up all those foreigners.

Greenland already has loads of ICE!

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

There have been active U.S. Military Bases on Greenland since the 1950s.

Denmark and Greenland are cooperating allies of the U.S.

Trump is out of control.

1 currently and it's a satellite communications base.

2 hours ago, dinsdale said:

How. What can the EU in all reality do to stop Trump doing this? NATO needs to deploy substantial assets (especially naval) to the region and Demark needs to allow for a substantial US base and forces. The only other option is what Trump is forecasting and that's a US takeover. There's no doubt of the strategic importance in this era of shifting global power balance.

The USA has set up it's military for global power projection. To do so in the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Africa it needs its bases and facilities in Europe.

The 6th Fleet (Mediterranean) needs to be kept supplied from European ports. It's air forces have to fly and refuelled from air bases in Europe, it's ground forces, whilst many of the troops would be flown in from the USA, needs the logistical facilities it maintains in Europe. If the USA moves on Denmark/Greenland it will rupture NATO; I suspect that European governments will be under very strong pressure to close those bases, ports and facilities, and to do so quickly. European countries almost all have an executive branch far more integrated into, and answerable to, their parliaments than the US does, and would have to bend to that pressure. Then there is the matter of the US debt held by European countries.

NATO will reinvent itself as a Europe (+ Canada) based alliance, again I suspect rather quickly, they are under no illusions about the threat from Russia. All governments make contingency plans, they talk to each other, the European part of NATO will already have been considering and preparing for such a possibility, it has been clear for a year now if not longer- probably since his first term in office - that a Trump inspired rupture in the North Atlantic Alliance is very much a possibility.

It will be a huge change, but one caused by the USA. A major reset of the balance of power in the world. It will have huge ramifications, politically, in terms of trade, in terms of the US Dollar's status as the de facto world reserve currency, the rise of other alliances such as BRICS; would the massively indebted US economy be able to withstand such pressures?

The USA has dominated the World, economically and politically for 70 years, at various times as either the only or the pre-eminent superpower. Is it about to pull the rug out from it's own feet?

24 minutes ago, JAG said:

If the USA moves on Denmark/Greenland it will rupture NATO

But that's a good thing, as NATO drives the New World Order agenda!

As for Russia, they should be our (w'our' being normal western people) allies, along with anyone else fighting the multicultural NWO.