Overview
- Sixty percent of Danes now label the United States an adversary, with just 17% calling it an ally, according to a new Epinion poll for public broadcaster DR.
- The White House says talks are underway on a NATO-linked framework for Arctic access and has dialed back tariff and force threats, but no detailed agreement has been presented.
- Greenland’s prime minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen warned Washington still seeks to tie the island to U.S. control and is pursuing paths to ownership despite public de-escalation.
- European allies mounted symbolic deployments to Greenland and launched a major NATO exercise without U.S. troops to test coordination if America stands aside.
- Allies have pledged roughly 5% of GDP for defense and security by 2035, while EU and NATO leaders reject creating a separate European army as Russia publicly casts the dispute as a NATO crisis.