White House hosts crunch Greenland meeting TODAY that could decide fate of WW3 hotspot island… & future of NATO alliance

THE White House will host talks on the future of Greenland today after US threats to take the arctic island by force. US Vice President JD Vance will sit down with top diplomats from Denmark and Greenland - and the summit could determine the fate of Nato itself. Danish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and his Greenlandic counterpart Vivian Motzfeldt will face down with Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday. It comes a day after the island’s prime minister said that Greenland would side with Denmark if it was made to choose - but Trump hit back. Greenlandic PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen was defiant at a news conference in Copenhagen on Tuesday as he vowed loyalty to Denmark. He said: “If we have to choose between the United States and Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. Read more in world news “We choose Nato. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU.” When The Don was asked about the PM’s comments, he said he did not know who the Greenlandic leader was, but claimed the politician would have a “big problem”. Trump said: “I disagree with him. I don’t know who he is. I don’t know anything about him. “But, that’s going to be a big problem for him.” Most read in The US Sun Greenland is currently an autonomous territory which is part of Denmark, a key Nato member. The Danes have urged the US not to launch any form of invasion as they have ordered troops to operate a “shoot on sight” protocol. European allies of Denmark are also warning Trump that the future of the Nato alliance is risk over Greenland. The US president has made it clear in recent days that he wants to get his hands on Greenland by whatever means possible. He has insisted that his first choice would be to buy the strategically important territory , but has not ruled out military action to take the island. America’s Arctic commissioner, Thomas Dans, said the US wants to move at “high speed” to annex the territory. He told USA Today : “This is a train route with multiple stops. “Things could move on an express basis, skip the local stops and go direct to the main station. “That’s where President Trump wants to move it − at high speed.” Tuuta Mikaelsen, a 22-year-old student in Nuuk said that she hoped American officials would “get the message to back off”. Polls show the majority of Greenland’s 57,000 inhabitants want to secede from Denmark, but do not want to become the 51st US state. Trump has said the territory is vital for US security, claiming it could be taken by China or Russia if he doesn’t step in. He insisted on Friday that he needed the island or “Russia or China will take over Greenland”. He said: “We’re not going to have Russia or China as a neighbour. “I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way. “But...

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