The Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, and Poland met on Wednesday to discuss the European response to a possible military action by the United States in Greenland. "We want to take action, but we want to do it with other European partners," stated French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot in an interview with France Inter radio.
Following the recent wave of threats from members of the Trump Administration, the Danish government has requested an urgent meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio to clarify the situation. Barrot stated that Rubio himself, in a phone conversation on Tuesday, "ruled out the possibility of an invasion."
A spokesperson for the Trump Administration declared on Tuesday, however, that the US government is considering "a range of options" and that military action "is always an option".
"No one is going to militarily fight against the US for the future of Greenland," warned Stephen Miller, Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff, further fueling the controversy. "The United States is a NATO power, and to ensure and protect NATO's interests, Greenland obviously has to be part of the United States," Miller added. "That is a conversation we will have as a country and a process we will have as a community of nations."
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen confirmed the request for an urgent meeting with Marco Rubio. "I would like to add some nuance to the conversation," Rasmussen wrote on social media. "This shouting match must be replaced by a sensitive dialogue."
Meanwhile, Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen asserted that the image the United States is trying to portray of a "vulnerable" Greenland in the face of Russian and Chinese ship movements is incorrect. "We have invested 100 billion crowns (around 13 billion euros) in the security of the territory," he stated.
"An attack on Greenland would mean the end of NATO and the end of the security system in place since World War II," Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned this week. "So I would firmly ask the United States to stop making threats against historic allies."
Frederiksen held several bilateral meetings with European leaders and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney during her visit to Paris to attend the Ukraine Volunteers Summit. Half a dozen European leaders (including Pedro Sánchez) issued a joint statement during the summit emphasizing "sovereignty, territorial integrity, and inviolability of borders." "Greenland belongs to its people," the statement reads. "Denmark and Greenland are the only ones who can decide on matters concerning their territory."
"We will always stand by NATO, even if NATO is not there for us," wrote Donald Trump on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday. "Russia and China would have zero fear of NATO if we weren't there," he added. "And to all those NATO fans, I would like to remind them that they were at 2% of GDP [in Defense spending] and many of them weren't paying the bills until I came along."