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In a significant escalation of tensions at a time where world peace appears to be teetering on a knife’s edge, Trump last week said: “Countries have to have ownership and you defend ownership, you don’t defend leases. And we’ll have to defend Greenland.”
He added: “We will do it ‘the easy way’ or ‘the hard way’.”
DEARBORN, MICHIGAN – JANUARY 13: U.S. President Donald Trump tours the Ford River Rouge Complex on January 13, 2026 in Dearborn, Michigan. Trump is visiting Michigan where he will participate in a tour of the Ford River Rouge complex and later give remarks to the Detroit Economic Club. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Yesterday U.S. Vice President JD Vance hosted ministers from Denmark and Greenland to discuss the territory’s future, with representatives from Denmark later warning of the meeting being marred by a “fundamental disagreement”.
Several European countries have declared their support for Denmark in relation to the matter, with NATO states including France, Sweden, and Germany sending military personnel to Greenland.
And if the previously unthinkable prospect of war between the U.S. and its European allies over an Artic territory wasn’t terrifying enough, Russian officials have now weighed in on the matter, expressing their belief that Trump is aiming to place nuclear strike forces on Greenland to gain superiority over the U.S.’s greatest rivals.
Trump has previously proposed the creation of a multi-layer missile defense system for the United States named the Golden Dome, and the POTUS believes the U.S. owning Greenland is “vital” to that plan coming to fruition.
“The United States needs Greenland for the purpose of National Security. It is vital for the Golden Dome that we are building,” Trump wrote on social media.
Former deputy prime minister of Russia Dmitry Rogozin currently serves as a senator for part of occupied Ukraine. Describing Trump as “eccentric”, he had stark words of warning regarding the U.S.’s apparent goal of making Greenland its 51st state.
Speaking of Trump’s desire to built the aforementioned Golden Dome missile defense system, Rogozin said: “Orbital sensors, ground interceptors, decision-making algorithms – all this requires advantageous geography.
