Heather Conley, nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, says that while Greenland is in a key position for European and US national security, the Trump administration should focus on working with Greenland, Denmark and other European partners to sure up that security instead of making threats to take it over.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that if Donald Trump were to attack the Danish island of Greenland that would mean the end of the NATO alliance. 
“I believe one should take the American president seriously when he says that he wants Greenland,” Frederiksen said in an interview with Danish broadcaster TV2. “But I will also make it clear that if the US chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops, including NATO and thus the security that has been established since the end of the Second World War.”
Officials in Copenhagen have been alarmed by the US president’s insistence on taking control of Greenland for security reasons following the raid on Caracas this weekend during which US forces arrested Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Trump has long argued that the US must control Greenland to ensure its own security, but on Sunday, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, he put a timeline on the situation.
“We’ll worry about Greenland in about two months,” Trump said. “Let’s talk about Greenland in 20 days.”

the US raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro put America’s allies and adversaries on notice: President Donald Trump has a new world order of his own.
In the aftermath of the stunning late night operation that saw Maduro and his wife whisked from a guarded military base near Caracas to a New York jail, Trump demonstrated just how far the US is willing to go to eliminate a leader seen as a threat to American interests and security. 

“The future will be determined by the ability to protect commerce and territory and resources that are core to national security,” Trump said in his news conference announcing Maduro’s capture. “These are the iron laws that have always determined global power, and we’re going to keep it that way.”

While a US military attack on an Arctic territory still seems farfetched, it’s hard to rule anything out now. The military isn’t the only tool at Trump’s disposal: he’s shown he’ll unleash trade sanctions and tariffs as pressure to achieve political goals. And Trump’s aides — particularly Vice President JD Vance — haven’t been afraid of signaling support for European opposition parties they think would better run the continent.  
As much as the latest events seemed to contrast with Trump’s previous “peacemaker” claims, it dovetailed with the far more muscular approach to the presidency that he’s demonstrated in his second term. That includes his deployment of the National Guard to cities across the US and embrace of a campaign to force millions of immigrants out of the US. 
The Venezuela mission — done without consulting allies or with clear outlines of what comes next in the South American nation — cemented the understanding that Trump moves first and sorts out details later.

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