The US Embassy in Copenhagen has angered Danish veterans by removing flags honoring soldiers killed in Afghanistan from an area outside the building.

The United States and Denmark will renegotiate their 1951 defence pact covering Greenland, reopening a Cold War-era agreement after US President Donald Trump backed away from threats to seize the territory and punish European allies with tariffs.

President Trump’s efforts to pry Greenland from Denmark show that “the old world order is now gone,” Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned in Berlin.

“It’s very disrespectful.”

A bipartisan U.S. Congressional delegation is seeking to reassure Denmark and Greenland after President Donald Trump threatened tariffs if nations don’t support a U.S. takeover of Greenland

In early 2026, President Donald Trump pushed for a U.S. takeover of Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.

In the early twentieth century, Danish and American diplomats quietly explored a land swap so audacious it sounded like satire: Denmark would hand over Greenland to Washington, and in return the United States would help it reclaim territory in Europe.