The U.S. military announced aircraft would soon arrive at Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, while stressing it is part of a "long-planned" exercise.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced that soliders are in Greenland to take part in a joint military exercise as Trump continues his push to take over the island.

As part of the move, which the Trump administration has communicated to some European capitals, the U.S. will eliminate roughly 200 positions from the NATO entities that oversee and plan the alliance's military and intelligence operations, said the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss private diplomatic conversations.

Several NATO countries are deploying small numbers of military personnel to Greenland to participate in joint exercises with Denmark as US President Donald Trump ramps up his threats to forcibly annex the Arctic island.

Former European Commission Margrethe Vestager cautioned "even for President Trump, for one NATO country to attack another NATO country to acquire territory is really far reaching" in an interview with Euronews as the White House piles on pressure on Denmark to cede the semi-autonomous territory of Greenland "one way or another.

The footage circulated as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration repeatedly expressed its desire to acquire Greenland (archived, archived), an autonomous territory of Denmark, most of which lies in the Arctic Circle. As of this writing, the Trump administration had not ruled out using military force to take the Danish territory.

Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Europe must ready an economic “bazooka” in response to President Trump’s threat to take Greenland by force. “If Mr Trump does not

President Donald Trump has pitched NATO into what could become its worst-ever crisis by threatening new tariffs against US allies who oppose his grab for Greenland against the will of its people.

But after having ordered a military operation to capture then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in the first days of January and threatened to use force to annex Greenland from fellow NATO member Denmark,