As Danish and Greenlandic leaders arrive in Washington to calm tensions, Donald Trump has detonated a new Arctic bombshell, declaring that U.S. control of Greenland is “vital” for national security and his proposed “Golden Dome” missile shield. Casting the island as the key to NATO’s strength against Russia and China, he insists anything short of American ownership is unacceptable. But Copenhagen, Nuuk, Paris and Brussels are closing ranks, warning that seizing a NATO ally’s territory would shatter the post‑war security order.
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