Danish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said he is heading to the U.S. for a Wednesday meeting at the White House with Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Greenland’s minister for foreign affairs Vivian Motzfeldt.
The meeting comes as U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly says he wants to take control of mineral-rich Greenland from Denmark, citing national security concerns in the Arctic around Russian and Chinese activity.
The White House has said it would not rule out military action in Greenland, despite Denmark being a NATO ally. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned that such a move against Greenland, the world’s largest island, which sits to the northeast of Canada, would spell the end of the NATO alliance.
The Trump administration is aggressively asserting its dominance in the Western Hemisphere under its “Donroe Doctrine,” a modern-day renewal of the 19th-century Monroe Doctrine, which opposed foreign influence in the Americas, particularly by imperial European powers, and sought to establish American hegemony.
The push to secure Greenland and its resources is a key part of this new White House strategy, which is also seen in the stunning U.S. military operation to seize Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro from Caracas, efforts to use American economic leverage to influence Latin American elections, and fresh threats of action against communist Cuba.
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