Denmark’s Frederiksen says she cannot be sure the U.S. will remain an ally amid Greenland dispute

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark said in Berlin that she did not know whether the United States would remain an ally as President Trump reorients U.S. posture and presses for a different arrangement over Greenland. Speaking at an hourlong question-and-answer session at an auditorium shared by Nordic missions, Ms.

Frederiksen said, "I don’t know what will happen in the U.S. ... I hope that they will stay in our alliance, but I don’t know what will happen." She said recent events — including Mr. Trump musing about using economic or military force to take ownership of Greenland and then announcing a "framework" agreement with NATO’s secretary general — showed that "the old world order is now gone." Ms.

Frederiksen urged European countries to increase military spending and take full responsibility for their own defense, ideally by 2030. She said discussions since Mr. Trump’s Davos announcement have focused on establishing a permanent NATO mission in the Arctic, barring China and Russia from mining rare earth minerals on Greenland, and renegotiating a 1951 agreement that gives the United States broad rights to station troops there.

She reiterated that granting sovereignty over Greenland would be a "red line" Denmark and its European allies would not cross and praised the 1951 treaty while not ruling out revising it. Ms.

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