US secretly sought intel on Greenland military sites-Berlingske
Greenland has become the clearest test yet of whether NATO will survive in its current form when the danger comes from inside, because Trump’s renewed threat of stealing allied territory should not be dismissed. I have warned for almost a decade about the threat Trump poses to NATO and Europe, and each action by the Trump regime keeps confirming it. The latest reporting from Denmark, which should horrify and outrage every American, suggests the United States has already behaved in ways that Danish defense officials interpreted as contingency preparation for invasion.
According to Berlingske, previously unknown documents from the Danish Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defense, released in heavily redacted form for national security reasons, indicate that in 2025 the United States secretly sought sensitive information from Danish colleagues in Greenland on military installations, ports, and air bases. The outreach reportedly took place informally and outside the normal channels that would typically run through Copenhagen’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, and Denmark’s senior defense leadership. The ministry was alerted immediately, “out of consideration for the strategic climate” surrounding Greenland, and the concern was escalated to the highest levels of the Danish military, including the Chief of Defense, indicating officials treated this as a serious security matter.
The timeline makes the episode harder to dismiss as an isolated incident. In January 2025, a U.S. military officer reportedly made two separate requests, six days apart, to Denmark’s military command in Greenland, with one logged on January 16 and another on January 26, seeking additional information about Greenland’s infrastructure, including critical military sites. It remains unclear whether any information was ultimately passed to the United States, and if so, what was shared. But Danish officials reportedly viewed the requests as relevant to contingency planning, including scenarios involving coercive pressure against Greenland. It should be incumbent on U.S. media to investigate who this American military officer was, who directed the outreach, and why this was happening before Trump was sworn in and while Biden was in office.
And now Denmark is acting publicly on fears that were first raised behind closed doors. In recent Atlantic reporting, Danish army chief Peter Boysen said Arctic security depends on satellites, drones, cyber defenses, and “domain awareness,” but stressed that sovereignty ultimately requires boots on the ground and forces that can deploy to Greenland in a crisis. The diplomatic break is just as clear. Denmark and Greenland’s foreign ministers met at the White House last week with J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio, and Denmark’s foreign minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, said the talks did not change the U.S. position, making clear that Trump’s intent has not changed.
If Trump moves from threats to action through coercive deployments, military pressure, or any attempt to seize allied territory, NATO as we know it will not survive. An alliance cannot function when its dominant member turns its power inward against an ally. And even if Trump never actually invades, the damage is already irreparable, because no serious European government can trust the United States after watching an American president threaten conquest while Congress issues statements of concern but takes no concrete steps to block him from using force against NATO countries.
NATO can still exist, but only in a different form, because Europe’s security interests do not vanish simply because the United States abandons the alliance or decides the rules-based order is optional. What would change is the structure, leadership, and membership, with a post-American alliance emerging out of necessity and built around a simple recognition that European security cannot be held hostage to a U.S. president who treats allied territory as property.
And let’s be clear, the only one ecstatic about Trump’s imperialism is Russia, which sees every step in this direction as a strategic win. While Europe is forced to prepare for the unthinkable, Moscow is free to intensify its war of extermination in Ukraine, leaving Ukrainians across the country without heat and power in sub-zero temperatures as Russian strikes systematically target critical infrastructure to break the population through cold, fear, and exhaustion. The Kremlin’s goal is to freeze Ukrainians into submission while the West is distracted by the spectacle of an American president threatening to invade an ally.
European leaders need to make the consequences clear to their Republican colleagues in Congress right now, and they need to deliver the message directly in terms that cannot be ignored. If the United States moves to seize Greenland, the result will not be diplomatic theater but a structural rupture and a permanent break that leaves America isolated from the alliance it once led. Europe has many cards on the table, and it needs to say so plainly. European governments can restrict U.S. access to their airspace, close or suspend U.S. bases, and cut off the operational privileges the U.S. depends on across the continent, and Republicans in Congress must understand that those measures will be on the table unless they act immediately.
Congress must also make its own warning just as clear. If the Trump regime moves toward invasion or coercive seizure of allied territory, every official who authorizes it should face impeachment and accountability, starting with Trump and running through the national security chain of command, including Pete Hegseth and anyone who signs, enables, or carries out illegal orders.
Finally, a new security order should not be limited to Europe alone. If the United States is willing to threaten to invade NATO territory, democratic states outside the alliance need to understand the precedent being set, because it will not end with Greenland. Any replacement framework should include deeper integration with Ukraine, whose battlefield experience has become Europe’s front-line deterrent, and with Japan and South Korea, whose security future is directly threatened by the normalization of territorial revisionism.
It should also reflect the larger reality that Russia, working in tandem with China, poses as much of a threat to Europe as it does to Canada, Japan, and South Korea, because this is a coordinated challenge to the democratic world, not a series of isolated crises. The core premise is simple. If the United States chooses to break the postwar order by threatening to invade an ally and annex territory, the rest of the democratic world must prove the order can survive without it, and that the cost of crossing that line will be permanent strategic isolation.
Yes Russia and China are getting what they wanted. Destroy the United States from within without firing a single shot. The years and amount of money spent to do this was cheaper than war.
The pissing match between Putin and Trump over 'who does it better' is an eye opener. Putin kills Ukrainian civilians and demolishes infrastructure as a military force. Trump chokes economic stability around the world and randomly bombs countries in the name of National Security. Who does it better? How will each escalate?
I raised six teenagers who acted out their fixed mindset differently but one thing was the same with each; it ended when their actions became more self destructive than gratifying. We wait.