Rubio to meet Danish counterpart next week on Greenland crisis

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Axios

15 mins ago


Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that he will meet with his Danish counterpart next week in Washington to discuss the crisis over Greenland.

Why it matters: The White House's insistence that the U.S. could use military force to take Greenland have created extreme alarm in Denmark and among other NATO allies.

Driving the news: The Danish government has been in crisis mode for the past few weeks, and particularly the last 72 hours.

Denmark has realized in recent weeks that its strategy of quiet ally-to-ally persuasion on Greenland had failed to move Trump, a Danish official told Axios. "This is why it is such a serious situation. This is also why our allies and partners come out publicly against it and sound the alarm."

On Tuesday the alarm increased after White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt reiterated that Trump intends to acquire Greenland one way or the other, and "the U.S. military is always an option at the commander-in-chief's disposal."

Speaking to reporters in between Venezuela briefings on Capitol Hill, Rubio said "every president always retains the option" of military force but "we always prefer to settle it in different ways."

He confirmed Trump was interested in potentially buying Greenland, though both Greenland and Denmark have made clear it's not for sale.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2026/01/07/rubio-denmark-greenland-meeting-trump-threats

[flashman13]

1. I completely disagree with the premise. There is no "Greenland Crisis". Trump is merely telling

the world that he intends to steal Greenland by brute force because he can. That's the situation.

[Botany]

2. This "Greenland Crisis" is not a both sides problem it is 100% made up by Trump and company ...

… including Putin (I’ll take Ukraine and you can have Greenland). I think the Greenland crisis
is really manufactured gas lighting to try to change the subject from Epstein. Greenland is not
our Country and Venezuela’s oil belongs to Venezuela.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. TACO created the crisis because he wants Greenland.

[relayerbob]

4. Crisis?

WE are creating the crisis. They were perfectly fine before Trump started getting a chubby over invading them.

[SergeStorms]

10. You beat me to it.

Trump is the crisis, not Greenland.

[ScratchCat]

5. I want to see a televised conversation

Where the PM of Denmark asks Marco Rubio the following question:

"Is it your position that if Denmark refuses to sell Greenland to The United States, The USA has the "right" to attack Greenland and kill its citizens who are defending their sovereign home land?".

Do it, Denmark.

Its a "yes" or "no" question and its very simple. He says "no", then its all over. He says "yes", then the House has no choice but to impeach Trump, Rubio and Hegseth and 100 Senators have no choice but to vote to remove them the next day. Because, how would Republicans defend this?

[WinstonSmith4740]

8. Totally agree.

However, we need to keep a couple of things in mind. Nobody in this administration can give a straight "yes" or "no" answer to anything, and if they do, they're lying. And Republicans will defend him regardless.

I really don't think Denmark's PM should agree to meet with Rubio anywhere near the Oval Office, or for that matter, Washington in general. You want to "talk"? See you at the UN.

And there's always this option. NeitherJohnson nor Kosygin would agree to travel to meet the other, so this happened. I was a student here at the time.
https://www.rbth.com/history/332824-us-soviet-glassboro-summit "

[Baitball Blogger]

6. This can go two ways.

1) Rubio comes in hard and makes the situation worse, sending Europe into a state of Defcon alarm.

Or

2) He says that Trump is only blustering and to ignore him.

At this point, nothing will surprise me.

[Prairie Gates]

7. "on Greenland crisis..." Axios is a garbage venue

[highplainsdem]

9. There's no "Greenland crisis." There's a "Trump is insane" crisis.

[Evolve Dammit]

11. When Stephen Miller's wife states "Soon" to the world with a US flag superimposed over Greenland, yes it is a crisis.

Stephen Miller is running the White House. Unchecked Nazi, from a family of immigrants.

[Bayard]

12. What crisis?

Greenlanders are just going along, living their lives, and minding their own business. Life hasn't changed much there in hundreds of years, and they don't want it to.

trump has no right to stress these people out. He is a crazy, greedy bastard, and thinks he can go into any country now, and take what he wants--like he did to Venezuela.

I don't see any way the U.N. can not get involved in protecting Greenland.