Danish PM says US attack on Greenland would be the end of NATO

Mette Frederiksen’s warning comes after Trump again threatened to takeover control of Greenland.Published On 6 Jan 2026Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has warned that any bid by the United States to take over Greenland will result in the end of the NATO military alliance, as reverberations from Washington’s military attack on Venezuela and the abduction of its leader are felt across the globe.Frederiksen made the comments on Monday following US President Donald Trump’s latest calls for the Arctic island to come under direct control of Washington.Trump told reporters on Sunday that he would “talk about Greenland in 20 days”. He has maintained that Greenland should come under the jurisdiction of the US, and his latest threat came just a day after US forces abducted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife.That military operation has caused alarm in Denmark and Greenland, which is a semiautonomous territory of the Danish kingdom and thus part of NATO.“If the United States chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops,” said Frederiksen.“That is, including our NATO and thus the security that has been provided since the end of the second world war,” she told Danish broadcaster TV2.Trump has not ruled out using military force to take control of Greenland, and last month, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry, who publicly supports annexation, was named as special envoy to the mineral-rich Arctic island.Katie Miller, the wife of Trump’s deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, posted on Saturday the contentious image of the Danish autonomous territory in the colours of the US flag on her X feed.