NATO Calls Emergency Meeting After Trump Activates Napoleon Mode Over Greenland

Probably just a coincidence that the moment the U.S. successfully grabbed a foreign leader out of Venezuela… Donald Trump immediately looked north and said, “You know what we’re missing? Greenland.”

Denmark agrees on exactly one thing right now: this is not, in fact, a coincidence.

After the U.S. stunned the world by capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in a surprise operation, Trump hopped aboard Air Force One and casually re-lit his favorite geopolitical candle: taking over Greenland.

“We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security,” Trump said… which is diplomatic code for “I’ve been staring at a map and that island looks extremely ownable.”

According to political risk analysts, Copenhagen is now in “full crisis mode.”The country technically handles Greenland’s defense, even though Greenland governs itself, doesn’t want to be sold, and has made that extremely clear (repeatedly) in a way that somehow still hasn’t landed.

(Source: Forbes)

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen responded by doing the thing European leaders always do when America starts acting like it found a new toy: issuing a calm but furious statement reminding everyone that Greenland is already part of NATO, already covered by collective defense guarantees, and very much not listed on Zillow.

Greenland’s own prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, was less diplomatic, calling the remarks “very rude and disrespectful,” which by Arctic standards is like flipping a table.

The appeal of Greenland isn’t complicated. It’s packed with minerals, it controls key Arctic routes, and it sits right between North America and Europe. There aren’t many people there, but there’s a lot of strategic value… which explains why national security folks can’t stop staring at it.

(Source: NDTV)

And apparently, markets haven’t priced this in at all.

Mujtaba Rahman of Eurasia Group warned that “the Greenland risk is underpriced,” which means everyone is wildly underestimating how messy this could get. He went a step further, calling a potential U.S. intervention in Greenland a bigger threat to NATO unity than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Definitely not the article I thought I’d be writing the first Monday of 2026, but here we are.

Meanwhile, Denmark has been rushing to reinforce Arctic defenses, buying more F-35s and pumping cash into Greenland infrastructure just in case Trump does in fact decide to go full Napoleon and follow through on his comments.

To really drive the point home, Trump recently named Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as special envoy to Greenland… which Denmark and Greenland instantly blasted, because appointing an annexation fanboy is definitely how you reassure allies.

And just in case the Danish folks weren’t already in full freakout mode, Katie Miller (wife of top Trump aide Stephen Miller) posted a map of Greenland draped in an American flag with the caption “SOON.”

In summary, Danish officials are pacing in their wooden shoes. Greenland is offended. NATO is losing sleep. Analysts are screaming about underpriced risk. And Trump is once again reminding the world that if you leave him alone with a globe long enough, something eventually gets annexed. We are so unbelievably back.

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