Danish soldiers locomotion crossed the frozen tarmac aft arriving astatine Nuuk airport, Greenland, connected January 19, 2026. The Danish Defense volition proceed the accrued beingness with workout activities unneurotic with a fig of NATO allies successful and astir Greenland successful 2026.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has dismissed the imaginable of the European Union resisting his propulsion to annex Greenland "too much," soon aft Denmark sent further troops to the Arctic island.
Speaking up of his travel to Davos for the World Economic Forum, Trump repeated his tendency to instrumentality the self-governing Danish territory. The contented has ratcheted up trans-Atlantic tensions and rattled the NATO subject alliance.
"I don't deliberation they are going to propulsion backmost excessively much," Trump told reporters successful Florida connected Monday evening, referring to EU absorption implicit Greenland. "Look, we person to person it," helium added.
The U.S. president, who has agelong coveted making Greenland a portion of the U.S., reiterated his involvement successful the sparsely populated territory pursuing an audacious subject intervention successful Venezuela connected Jan. 3.
Trump has repeatedly said taking power of Greenland is captious for U.S. nationalist security, often citing concerns astir Russia and China's Arctic influence.
The comments person raised alarm crossed Europe and prompted demonstrations successful Copenhagen and Greenland's capital, Nuuk, implicit the weekend.
Trump sought to rise the stakes adjacent further connected Saturday erstwhile helium announced a rising question of tariffs connected 8 European countries if they reason his bid to get Greenland.
An other levy of 10% volition use to the U.K., Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Finland from Feb. 1, Trump said, earlier rising to 25% from June 1.
European governmental leaders called the tariffs "unacceptable" and vowed to backmost Denmark, which is liable for the island's foreign, defense, and information policies.
The EU is besides reportedly considering retaliatory measures against the Trump administration's caller import levies, including a alleged trade "bazooka" and broader economical countermeasures.
'Arctic Endurance' exercise
Denmark has sought to beef up its subject beingness successful Greenland, according to local media reports.
A "substantial contribution" of Danish combat troops were expected to get successful Greenland's Kangerlussuaq connected Monday evening, Danish broadcaster TV2 reported. Kangerlussuaq, successful occidental Greenland, is location to the island's large planetary transport hub.
Denmark's apical subject commandant successful the Arctic, Major General Søren Andersen, reportedly said that 100 Danish soldiers had already arrived successful Nuuk and a akin fig successful Kangerlussuaq. The troops are expected to instrumentality portion successful an a subject workout dubbed "Arctic Endurance."
Danish soldiers disembark an airplane astatine Nuuk airport, Greenland, connected January 19, 2026.
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The operation, which is centered connected countering imaginable Russian activity, Reuters reported past week, alternatively than successful effect to the Trump administration, comes little than a week aft respective NATO allies deployed tiny numbers of troops to Greenland for a abstracted associated subject exercise.
Danish authorities representatives are not expected to be the World Economic Forum this week, a WEF spokesperson confirmed, arsenic the quality implicit Greenland intensifies.
Opinion polls have shown that Greenlanders overwhelmingly reason U.S. control, portion a beardown bulk enactment independency from Denmark.
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