Greenland

President Trump signed a deal with the leaders of Greenland and Denmark to pave the way for a larger U.S. military presence on the Arctic island and end a monthslong standoff that has soured Washington’s relations with European allies.

The three leaders met Tuesday at a signing ceremony on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The agreement builds on a 1951 treaty between the U.S. and Denmark, but adds provisions including a more significant buy-in from Greenland as a self-governing territory.

Here are the highlights

The US will open two military bases in Greenland after Donald Trump struck a deal on the security of the island, it has been revealed.

Last week, the US president announced a broad agreement with Denmark after months of threatening to take the semi-autonomous Arctic territory by force.

Details have emerged suggesting that a Cold War-era military base at Narsarsuaq in southern Greenland would be reopened.

The US and Denmark have announced a deal on Greenland’s security, resolving a diplomatic dispute sparked by President Donald Trump’s threats to seize it by force.

Nato said the deal would help stabilise the region, as Trump said Denmark would grant the US “permanent control over security, and all other needs” in the semi-autonomous Danish territory in the Arctic.

The leaders of Denmark and Greenland welcomed the deal to “strengthen security”, saying it was expected to be signed next week – but did not outline its contents.

The Star says the Carney Regime finds the deal “encouraging”.

In real life that means the LPC will reduce arctic defense measures.

Canada’s defence minister calls U.S. deal on Greenland ‘encouraging’

They were shocked! That rude, disgraceful vulgarian did it again!

Because in international diplomacy, negotiations aren’t really negotiations — they’re wish lists, performative art, and virtue signaling. The purpose, after all, isn’t to get results.

If European leaders had a bingo card of all the fights Donald Trump could pick with them, at this week’s Nato summit in Ankara they would have won a blackout. Starting as he meant to go on, Trump used a joint briefing with Nato chief Mark Rutte this morning to reheat his litany of grievances with fellow members of the alliance.

Trump today declared that he was ‘not happy with Nato because of what they did with Greenland’ and their refusal, as he sees it, to help the US with the war in Iran. Greenland, the President said, was a ‘big problem for us’, going on to claim – falsely – that ‘it’s not important for Denmark’.

.@POTUS: "Greenland is very important for the United States but it's not important for Denmark. In fact, when Denmark was overrun by the Nazis in less than one day…they asked us to take care of Greenland…We shouldn't have given it back to them because we're the ones that need… pic.twitter.com/IRehRZKa9s

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 8, 2026

Didn’t forget Spain either!

.@POTUS: "Spain is a wasted cause. We don't want to do any trade business with Spain anymore by the way… Spain is a terrible partner in NATO. They don't participate, they don't pay. I don't want anything to do with Spain." pic.twitter.com/3prqux6p54

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 8, 2026

h/t patthedog

In the global competition for natural resources, the United States is still seeking to increase its influence in Greenland. For months, President Donald Trump kept up the pressure on the island, culminating last January when he declared there was “no going back” in his quest to obtain the territory. He also gave journalists the headline they were looking for when he declined to rule out clearly the use of military force. Trump dialled back his rhetoric at the World Economic Forum in Davos, after strong pushback from European countries – led by the “former” colonial power Denmark – and unease from domestic allies over his language.

President Donald Trump has once again floated his controversial Greenland land-grab plans with a dramatic social media post showing himself looming over the Arctic island.

The AI-generated image, shared on Friday evening, featured Trump peering over the Danish territory’s mountains and colorful villages beneath the words: ‘Hello, Greenland!’

Donald Trump has demanded a clause that would amount to a “veto” over any future Chinese or Russian investments in Greenland, The Telegraph can report.

Diplomatic sources have revealed that preventing Beijing from accessing the substantial mineral reserves buried deep beneath the ice has become a key objective for the Trump administration in talks over the island.

Officials from the United States, Greenland and Denmark have been locked in secret negotiations over a deal that satisfies the US president’s desire to control the territory.

The US has been holding regular negotiations with Denmark to expand its military presence in Greenland, according to multiple officials familiar with the discussions, with talks between both sides progressing in recent months.

US officials are seeking to open three new bases in the south of the territory, a semi-autonomous part of Denmark, as they work to resolve a diplomatic crisis sparked by President Donald Trump when he threatened to seize Greenland by force.

Trump said in January that the US should “own” Greenland to prevent Russia or China from taking it. He said this could happen the “easy way ” or “the hard way”.