Frederiksen’s resistance coincides with Trump stepping back from Greenland

Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has taken visible risks confronting President Trump over his threats to seize Greenland, and after escalating tensions Mr. Trump said in Davos he would not use force and later said he and NATO leaders had worked out "the framework of a future deal," a development the article says "remains to be seen." Ms.

Frederiksen mobilized a small coalition of troops from Britain, Germany, France and Iceland to Greenland as part of an Arctic training exercise and has signaled that American sovereignty over bases there is a "red line." Commentators cited in the article said the deployments were meant to show that any U.S.

military action would be "very nasty and ugly," and she also rallied European capitals and resisted threatened tariffs. The episode has bolstered her standing at home: opinion polls show her party surging and she is positioned to seek a third term in elections later this year, the article says.

The dispute traces back to Mr. Trump’s 2019 suggestion that the United States buy Greenland, which Ms. Frederiksen called "absurd," and to a Jan. 7, 2025 comment in which he said he would not rule out using force; the article also notes a visit to Nuuk by Donald Trump Jr. and U.S.-aligned influencers handing out $100 bills that alienated many Greenlanders.

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World, Mette Frederiksen, Greenland, Donald Trump, Denmark, Nato