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1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️

2/ The Danish public broadcaster DR reports that officials in Denmark, France and Germany say that Donald Trump's threats to seize Greenland were taken so seriously that wide-ranging preparations were made to forcibly resist a US invasion of the Danish island.

3/ The Danish and French governments worked together to create a northern European coalition to defend Greenland from the United States. Under the cover of a pre-planned defence exercise, Greenland's defences were bolstered to raise the costs of any US invasion attempt.

4/ This included sending blood to treat wounded soldiers; sending elite Danish troops and French alpine troops to Greenland; preparing Greenland's runways for demolition to prevent a Hostomel-style seizure; and sending armed F-35 jets to patrol the skies.

5/ The trigger for this, according to DR, was the American attack on Venezuela on 3 January 2026 in which President Nicolas Maduro was abducted and taken to the US.

6/ According to a source, "When Trump keeps saying he wants to take over Greenland, and then what happened in Venezuela, we had to take all scenarios seriously."

7/ The US attack on Venezuela also convinced the governments that "the official US is not functioning as usual", which had to be taken into account in their threat assessments.

8/ "Trump doesn't have the same level of people around him as before who would talk him out of it. It's super dangerous," says the source.

9/ As well as alpine troops, France also sent a warship and refueling aircraft, pledged hundreds more soldiers, and expressed willingness to send anything else the Danes needed. Sweden, Norway, and the UK also sent military support to Greenland.

10/ As a source puts it, the French said: "Would you like more soldiers? You could have them. Would you like more naval support? You could have that. Would you like more air support? You could have that too."

11/ Sources that "the goal of having soldiers on land in Greenland – with as many different flags on their shoulders as possible – was ... so that the Americans would be forced to take a major hostile action if Donald Trump actually wanted to occupy Greenland militarily."

12/ Denmark chose to capitulate to the Nazi invasion of April 1940, but has vowed not to repeat that experience. Danish soldiers are under standing orders to resist with force any foreign incursions on the territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, which includes Greenland.

13/ The deployments made it clear that any attempt to seize Greenland would have consequences of the utmost seriousness, including shattering NATO, destroying the relationship between Europe and the US, and causing significant loss of life to US forces.

14/ Although this persuaded Trump to back down and Greenland has since faded from the headlines, the Danish government assesses that the US still poses a continuing threat to the island, according to a high-ranking source quoted by DR.

15/ "This is not over. Trump is here for three more years. And no matter what happens, the distrust and challenge to the [Danish] Commonwealth will persist as long as he has set out to go down in history by expanding the territory of the United States." /end

Source:
dr.dk/nyheder/indlan…