{"id":13562,"date":"2026-02-15T04:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T04:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/13562\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T04:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T04:52:08","slug":"keir-starmer-sends-royal-navy-to-patrol-greenland-in-bid-to-calm-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/13562\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer sends Royal Navy to patrol Greenland in bid to calm Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Royal Navy will patrol the waters off Greenland by the end of 2026, Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, the PM revealed Britain will send its carrier strike group to the north Atlantic and Arctic waters later this year.<\/p>\n

HMS Prince of Wales, the Royal Navy’s largest vessel, will lead the deployment.<\/p>\n

The mission, named Operation Firecrest, will see British forces working alongside American, Canadian and other Nato partners.<\/p>\n

“I can announce today that the UK will deploy our carrier strike group to the north Atlantic and the High North this year – led by HMS Prince of Wales, operating alongside the US, Canada and other Nato allies, in a powerful show of our commitment to Euro-Atlantic security,” Sir Keir said.<\/p>\n

The deployment follows a cooling in tensions over the Arctic territory, which Donald Trump has long eyed up.<\/p>\n

Last month, tempers flared as Mr Trump threatened to take over Greenland in a bid to shore up American security.<\/p>\n

The President argued that Washington had to act to prevent Russia or China from gaining a foothold on the resource-rich island.<\/p>\n

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PICTURED: An F-35B fighter jet rests on the deck of HMS Prince of Wales<\/p>\n

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PICTURED: HMS Prince of Wales leads a Nato carrier strike group for Operation Steadfast Defender 2024<\/p>\n

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Europe responded by bolstering its Arctic presence – with Britain contributing one officer<\/a> – in a bid to talk Mr Trump down from the edge.<\/p>\n

Greenland contains valuable deposits of copper, nickel and rare earth minerals essential for modern technology.<\/p>\n

It also sits at one end of the “GIUK gap”, a stretch of water between it, Iceland and the UK through which Russian vessels must pass to enter the north Atlantic.<\/p>\n

And the gap is only getting busier, with Russian naval activity near British waters rising by 30 per cent over the past two years.<\/p>\n

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Europe responded by bolstering its Arctic presence in a bid to talk Donald Trump down from the edge<\/p>\n

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During a Q&A session after his speech, Sir Keir said he was “pleased” that Greenland “is now in a process of dialogue, which is where it should have been”.<\/p>\n

“The security in the Arctic is really important to all of us and we need to do more. That’s why I announced what I announced about that carrier strike group,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“I thought that those weeks of Greenland were quite instructive because we had – certainly from the British point of view – the usual mix of common sense pragmatism, but sticking to our values and principles.<\/p>\n

“And across Europe, we stuck to those values and principles about sovereignty and why sovereignty matters. And it was a period in which there was intense collaboration and security among European leaders,” Sir Keir added.<\/p>\n

John Healey, the Defence Secretary, said the deployment would “help make Britain warfighting ready”.<\/p>\n

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The PM said he was ‘pleased’ that Greenland was ‘now in a process of dialogue’<\/p>\n

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It will also “boost our contribution to Nato and strengthen our operations with key allies, keeping the UK secure at home and strong abroad”, he said.<\/p>\n

The carrier strike group will include other advanced Royal Navy warships and RAF F-35 fighter jets.<\/p>\n

Royal Navy vessels participated in Exercise Joint Viking, a Nato drill in similar freezing conditions off Norway, last year.<\/p>\n

Separately, 1,500 Royal Marines will travel to Norway, Finland and Sweden later this year<\/a> for Exercise Cold Response, a training mission focused on defending frozen terrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royal Navy will patrol the waters off Greenland by the end of 2026, Sir Keir Starmer has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[184,57,74,38,1158,10308,652,5624,1161],"class_list":{"0":"post-13562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-greenland","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-greenland","10":"tag-nato","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-sgg","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-us-politics","16":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}