Trump’s new Greenland offensive fuses economic pressure with geopolitical brinkmanship, and it is rattling every capital from Copenhagen to Brussels. A sweeping 10% tariff on key European allies, openly tied to forcing a change in Greenland’s status, has turned a strategic fantasy into a diplomatic emergency. EU leaders are scrambling, warning this is coercion, not partnership, and vowing to hit back if necessary.
On the ground, Greenlanders are marching against a future they never chose, while European troops insist their Arctic mission is defensive, not a provocation. Inside Washington, even senior Republicans are sounding alarms: a forced takeover could trigger a clash not with Russia, but with NATO itself. The irony is brutal. In the name of countering Moscow in the Arctic, Trump may be pushing the Western alliance closer to a fracture than at any moment in its history.
