A group of European countries led by the U.K. and Germany are discussing establishing a NATO Arctic mission in Greenland, in an apparent attempt to counter U.S. President Donald Trump’s takeover of the island, and tilt at the windmill of the imputed threats from Russia and China. Bloomberg, citing unnamed sources, reported on Jan. 11 that Germany will propose setting up a joint NATO mission to protect the Arctic region. Bloomberg reports that U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has separately urged allies to step up their security presence in the High North and recently reached out to leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, to discuss the issue.
Bloomberg further cited its sources claiming that the U.S. kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, as well as the “heightened rhetoric” from the White House on potentially using military force to take control of Greenland, “has forced European leaders to quickly cobble together a strategy. They want to show that Europe and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have the region’s security under control, as they try to undercut Trump’s argument for taking over Greenland.”
