This Wednesday, the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland met at the White House with two of the Trump Administration’s strongest men, JD Vance and Marco Rubio, after weeks of listening to the North American president express his intention to annex the Arctic island.
The meeting, which lasted barely 50 minutes, does not seem to have served much purpose, as acknowledged by Denmark’s own Foreign Minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, who described the conversation as “frank” and “constructive.”
“We have had what I would describe as a frank but constructive conversation about how to ensure the long-term security of Greenland. On this matter our opinions continue to be different. The president has shown what he thinks clearly and we have a different position,” he explained at the end of the meeting.
The position of the Greenlanders and the Danes is that they are willing to cooperate with Washington so that the mutual security agreement between the United States and Denmark signed in 1951 is used, so that the Pentagon increases the number of troops it has in the territory. That is, they are willing to cooperate, but not for the United States to annex or buy the island.
That is why Rasmussen himself has announced the creation of “a high-level working group” to find a common solution. “In our opinion, the group should focus on how to address American security concerns, while respecting Denmark’s red lines,” he explained.
The pressure that Donald Trump is exerting is enormous and he continues without moving from the position that the island should be part of the United States since it is the only country capable of defending it from Russia and China.
Late this Wednesday, after the meeting, Trump once again publicly insisted that “we need” Greenland, although he highlighted the good relations between the United States and Denmark. “We will see what happens,” said the president.
Hours earlier, the US president had already warned that control of Greenland “is vital for the Golden Dome” being built by the United States, an anti-missile shield similar to the Iron Dome that Israel has and which was unveiled by the White House in May 2025.
France, Germany, Sweden and Norway announced this Wednesday that they will send officers to Greenland to jointly study ways to cooperate to increase security in the region.
