NATO will bolster its Arctic presence with a new mission after U.S. President Donald Trump triggered an alliance crisis over his attempts to take Greenland.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization announced the mission, dubbed “Arctic Sentry,” on Wednesday, a day before the group’s defense ministers gather in Brussels.
“There is a real threat that from today onwards, knowing what we have seen in the past, the sea lanes opening up, that this will increase and that therefore there is every need to make sure that we protect this vital part of NATO territory,” NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told reporters on the eve of the meeting.