Amid Trump’s Greenland moves, Denmark floats special Nato mission on island

As US President Donald Trump pushes his Greenland dream, Denmark on Tuesday proposed Nato surveillance on the island country.

“We have proposed it, the secretary general has taken note of that, and I think we can now – we hope – define a framework on how that can be concretised,” Troels Lund Poulsen told Danish television.

Meanwhile, Nato chief Mark Rutte, who held a meeting with Poulsen, has said he had discussed “how important the Arctic – including Greenland – is to our collective security.”

“We’ll continue to work together as Allies on these important issues,” he wrote.

Sweden’s defence minister Pal Jonson suggested a NATO mission “could be a way forward” as Trump insists more must be done to ward off the threat of China and Russia to Greenland.

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“We are seeing what is the most constructive way that we could contribute to this endeavour of strengthening the alliance footprint in the High North,” he said after a meeting of Nordic ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels.

US to deploy aircraft

The United States is set to deploy military aircraft to Greenland as diplomatic and military tensions increase over President Donald Trump’s push to acquire the self-governing Danish territory. The aircraft will arrive at Pituffik Space Base in northwestern Greenland. The move is linked to planned defence activities. It comes amid heightened scrutiny of US intentions in the Arctic.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) said on Monday local time that its aircraft would soon arrive at the base, formerly known as Thule Air Force Base. The deployment is part of long-planned activities designed to support routine operations to defend North America.

Norad said the move builds on existing defence cooperation between the United States, Canada and Denmark. It added that the plans were coordinated with Copenhagen, with Greenland informed in advance.

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Trump to hold Greenland meeting in Davos

Meanwhile, Trump has announced that he will hold a meeting with “various parties” about his attempt to take over Greenland at the Davos gathering of global elites this week.

“I had a very good telephone call with Mark Rutte, the Secretary General of NATO, concerning Greenland,” Trump posted on his TruthSocial platform.

“I agreed to a meeting of the various parties in Davos, Switzerland.”

“I don’t think they’re gonna push back too much. We have to have it. They have to have this done,” he told a reporter in Florida who asked what Trump planned to say to European leaders who opposed his plans.

With inputs from agencies