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LONDON \u2014 Major European allies warned the United States on Tuesday that they would “not stop defending” the values of sovereignty and territorial integrity following President Donald Trump’s threats against the Danish island of Greenland<\/a>.
Trump and his team have ramped up hostile suggestions that they want to seize Greenland<\/a>, a vast Arctic island of just 50,000 people that has mineral and strategic significance.
The U.S. attack against Venezuela and capture of President <\/a>Nicol\u00e1s Maduro \u2014 which the United Nations said undermined international law \u2014 has raised fears that this might not be an empty threat.
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The European leaders were in Paris meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a>, as well as Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff and others, according to a White House official. It is the latest in frenzied rounds of shuttle diplomacy to end Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.
Though these negotiations have accelerated since November, the U.S. attack on Venezuela and continued suggestions of seizing Greenland have cast a shadow over the talks, which are being held with the very allies that \u2014 under NATO\u2019s principle of collective defense \u2014 Trump has suggested attacking.
\u201cThe Kingdom of Denmark \u2014 including Greenland \u2014 is part of NATO,\u201d the allies said in a joint statement.
\u201cSecurity in the Arctic must therefore be achieved collectively, in conjunction with NATO allies including the United States, by upholding the principles of the U.N. Charter, including sovereignty, territorial integrity and the inviolability of borders. These are universal principles, and we will not stop defending them,\u201d said the statement, issued by the leaders of France, Germany, Britain, Italy, Poland, Spain and Denmark.
It added that \u201cthe United States is an essential partner in this endeavor, as a NATO ally\u201d and through a 1951 defense agreement allowing Washington to build military bases on the vast island. \u201cGreenland belongs to its people,\u201d it said. \u201cIt is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland.\u201d
Outgoing centrist Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., called the statement “embarrassing for the U.S.” in a post on X<\/a>.
“Denigrating our Allies serves no purpose and there is NO up side,” he said. “It weakens us by diminishing trust between friends, and Russia and China love it. So\u2026 stop the stupid ‘we want Greenland BS.'”
One of the key elements being discussed in Paris is Ukraine and Europe\u2019s desire for \u201csecurity guarantees,\u201d which could come in the form of a multinational force being deployed to Ukraine to ensure Russia does not launch further attacks.
French President Emmanuel Macron had said Tuesday\u2019s gathering of the so-called coalition of the willing would see the powers \u201cmake concrete commitments\u201d to Ukraine\u2019s security as part of any future peace deal with Russia.
Kyiv and its allies have consistently said that this would need to be backed by American military power. But Trump has indicated he may instead turn that might against a NATO ally, telling NBC News on Monday that he was \u201cvery serious\u201d in his ambitions to take control of Greenland.
Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy, took this a step further. He told CNN<\/a> that “obviously Greenland should be part of the U.S.” because of what he described as the island’s geostrategic importance in helping Washington fulfill its role as “the power of NATO.”
“The real question is, what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland?” he said. “Nobody is going to fight the United States militarily over Greenland,” Miller added.
Any U.S. action against Greenland would be a dramatic and historic escalation, even when set against Trump\u2019s past hostility toward Washington\u2019s erstwhile European allies.
Denmark is a NATO partner, and dozens of its troops died fighting in U.S.-led operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Many experts believe that U.S. military action to seize the territory would spell the end of the alliance and mark a new nadir for transatlantic ties that are already strained under Trump.
\u201cIt would de facto mean that NATO was dead because many European nations would simply say, \u2018OK, we cannot rely on the Americans anymore,\u2019\u201d said Peter Viggo Jakobsen, an associate professor at the Royal Danish Defence College.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said much the same Monday, telling her country\u2019s TV2 broadcaster that \u201cif the United States chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops.\u201d
Even without the building panic over Greenland, it remains a colossal ask to bridge the chasm between Russia\u2019s insistence on its hard-line demands<\/a> and the fears held by Ukraine and Europe that President Vladimir Putin may use a deal as a launchpad to attack again.
Zelenskyy said that a peace deal is \u201c90%\u201d there, albeit suggesting that the final 10% contains the thorniest issues.
It is unclear whether Russia will ever accept any form of security guarantee, with Putin wavering little in his demand for Ukraine\u2019s effective surrender.
Alexander Smith is a senior reporter for\u00a0NBC News Digital based in London.
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