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Autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark and world's largest island
The letter President Donald Trump sent to Norway’s prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre — first published by PBS correspondent Nick Schifrin and widely reprinted — contains a blunt opening linking Trump’s ...
Congress has moved aggressively to constrain any unilateral U.S. military seizure of Greenland, but its votes are mixed: lawmakers introduced multiple bills and resolutions expressly to bar force or r...
Comparisons between Donald Trump’s actions and Adolf Hitler’s rise before World War II surface repeatedly in recent commentary and scholarship, with analysts pointing to overlapping tactics—nationalis...
Germany has publicly discussed and begun planning a stepped-up NATO role in Greenland and the Arctic, and German naval activity tied to NATO patrols in northern waters has been reported — but definiti...
Pituffik Space Base — long known as Thule Air Base — is the United States’ sole remaining military installation in Greenland, maintained under a 1951 defence agreement with Denmark and operated as a S...
If one NATO member attacks another, the alliance’s core legal instrument—Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty—creates a collective-defence obligation, but it does not automatically prescribe how All...
A small clutch of firms — both local operators and foreign juniors — currently hold Greenland mining permits or run active projects, notably Amaroq Minerals (Nalunaq), Lumina Sustainable Materials (Wh...
Reporting is mixed: several outlets initially listed Canada among NATO partners sending personnel to Denmark’s Greenland exercise, Operation Arctic Endurance, but official Canadian defence spokespeopl...
A 2022 agreement between Canada, the Kingdom of Denmark (including Greenland) settled the longstanding Hans Island dispute and created a land border while reaffirming existing maritime delimitations, ...
Multiple news reports—many tracing to a Daily Mail story—say Donald Trump instructed senior special-operations commanders to prepare “contingency” or invasion plans for Greenland, but there is no defi...
The Senate has moved to legally bar U.S. military and diplomatic funds from being used to blockade, occupy, annex or otherwise assert control over the sovereign territory of any NATO member — legislat...
an institutions are not conducting a coordinated, continent‑wide sell‑off of Treasuries; data through late 2025 shows continued net foreign inflows into U.S. sovereign debt even as isolated European p...
Only one NATO member — Germany — has publicly announced a specific, finalized small contingent and a narrow timeline for deployment to Greenland: a 13-strong Bundeswehr reconnaissance team to Nuuk, ar...
repeatedly from the 19th century to today: and his circle explored Greenland after purchase; ’s diplomats proposed a land-exchange in the early 20th century; made a formal postwar bid in 1946; and pla...
No — the widely reported document was a private message sent to ’s prime minister, , not a letter addressed to ; it was, however, circulated widely and triggered a storm of reaction from Danish and ot...
A review of reporting finds a clear temporal link between public rhetoric about and dramatic moves in stocks tied to Greenland’s mineral prospects, but no public, verifiable evidence in the cited repo...
Greenlanders overwhelmingly reject becoming part of the United States and their government has publicly stated it “cannot under any circumstances accept” a U.S. takeover, instead affirming membership ...
Stephen Miller currently serves in the Trump White House as deputy chief of staff for policy and as the administration’s homeland security adviser, a role he assumed at the start of Trump’s second ter...
Denmark provides Greenland an annual “block grant” worth roughly DKK 3.4–3.9 billion (commonly reported in recent sources as about USD 500–600 million), a transfer that historically covers more than h...
Nick Schifrin, PBS NewsHour foreign correspondent, published the text of a letter attributed to U.S. President Donald Trump to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre — posting the text publicly on ...