Danish Premier Says US Attack on Greenland Would Break NATO (2)

Jan. 5, 2026, 5:44 PM UTC

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that if Donald Trump were to attack the Danish island of Greenland that would mean the end of the NATO alliance.

“I believe one should take the American president seriously when he says that he wants Greenland,” Frederiksen said in an interview with Danish broadcaster TV2. “But I will also make it clear that if the US chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops, including NATO and thus the security that has been established since the end of the Second World War.”

Officials in Copenhagen have been alarmed by the US president’s ...

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