{"id":2530542,"date":"2026-01-06T13:36:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stephen-miller-goads-panicked-european-allies-and-says-no-military-would-defend-greenland\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T13:38:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:38:39","slug":"stephen-miller-goads-panicked-european-allies-and-says-no-military-would-defend-greenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stephen-miller-goads-panicked-european-allies-and-says-no-military-would-defend-greenland\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Miller goads panicked European allies and says no military would defend Greenland"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstephen-miller-goads-panicked-european-allies-and-says-no-military-would-defend-greenland%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2530542&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Stephen Miller, President Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/somethings-brewing-dan-scavino-posts-series-of-tweets-after-raucous-oval-office-meeting-trump-is-ready-to-take-action\/\" title=\"SOMETHING\u2019S BREWING! Dan Scavino Posts Series of Tweets After Raucous Oval Office Meeting \u2013 Trump Is Ready to Take Action\">deputy chief<\/a> of staff for policy, told CNN that the United States should consider Greenland as part of its strategic Arctic interests and argued &#8220;nobody is going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland,&#8221; questioning Denmark&#8217;s territorial claim. His comments, framed as part of a push to secure the Arctic, prompted a coordinated response from seven major European leaders &#8211; including Emmanuel macron, Friedrich Merz, Keir Starmer, Giorgia Meloni, Donald Tusk, and Pedro S\u00e1nchez &#8211; who affirmed that Greenland belongs to its people and that Denmark and Greenland alone decide their affairs. The statement emphasized collective NATO duty for Arctic security and the importance of upholding UN principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned that any U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">military action<\/a> against Greenland would effectively destroy NATO. Greenland remains an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Stephen Miller goads panicked European allies and says no military would defend Greenland<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2463933\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/stephen-miller\/\">Stephen Miller<\/a>&lsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/capitol-police-request-2k-national-guard-troops-for-an-extra-60-days\/\" title=\"Capitol Police request 2K National Guard troops for an extra 60 days\">continued threats<\/a> to annex <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/greenland\/\">Greenland<\/a> are becoming uncomfortably serious for European allies in the aftermath of the Venezuelan invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Miller, President Donald Trump&rsquo;s deputy chief of staff for policy, told CNN that there is &ldquo;no need to even think or talk about&rdquo; possible military action to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/3913408\/denmark-labels-us-possible-security-threat-over-uncertainty\/\">take the Danish territory<\/a> because &ldquo;nobody is going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4407985\/iran-rolls-out-7-dollar-payments-to-quell-affordability-protests\/\">Iran rolls out $7 payments to quell affordability protests<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4407942\/joe-concha-venezuela-critics-living-festivus-every-day\/\">Joe Concha says Venezuela critics are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michelle-obama-faces-backlash-for-calling-white-house-living-expensive\/\" title=\"Michelle Obama faces backlash for calling White House living &#039;expensive&#039;\">living &#038;lsquo<\/a>;Festivus every day&rsquo;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4407919\/machado-trump-flattery-overlooked-take-over-after-maduro-capture\/\">Machado peppers Trump with flattery after being overlooked to take over after Maduro capture<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;The real question is &mdash; what right does Denmark have to assert control over Greenland?&rdquo; Miller said. &ldquo;What is the basis of their territorial claim? What is their basis of having Greenland as a colony of Denmark?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Homeland Security adviser Stephen Miller reacts on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025. (AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein), File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;The U.S. is the power of Nato,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;For the U.S. to secure the Arctic region to protect and defend Nato and Nato interests, obviously Greenland should be part of the US. And so that&rsquo;s a conversation that we&rsquo;re going to have as a country. That&rsquo;s a process we&rsquo;re going to have as a community of nations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Seven major <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/europe\/\">European powers<\/a> released a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/stm.dk\/statsministeriet\/publikationer\/faellesudtalelse-om-groenland\/\">joint statement<\/a> following Miller&rsquo;s interview in which they affirmed, &ldquo;Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The tone of the message was conciliatory, however, emphasizing the strides made by European members of NATO to increase <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3258999\/russian-navy-chief-touts-arctic-nuclear-forces-guarantee-national-security\/\">Arctic security<\/a> infrastructure in the region &mdash; the ostensible reason for Trump&rsquo;s bid for the island.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;NATO has made clear that the Arctic region is a priority and European Allies are stepping up. We and many other Allies have increased our presence, activities and investments, to keep the Arctic safe and to deter adversaries. The Kingdom of Denmark &mdash; including Greenland &mdash; is part of NATO,&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >leaders wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Signatories included French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S&aacute;nchez.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Danish military forces participate in an exercise with hundreds of troops from several European NATO members in the Arctic Ocean in Nuuk, Greenland, Monday, Sept. 15, 2025. (AP Photo\/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The leaders continued, &ldquo;Security in the Arctic must therefore be achieved collectively, in conjunction with NATO allies including the United States, by upholding the principles of the UN Charter, including sovereignty, territorial integrity and the inviolability of borders. These are universal principles, and we will not stop defending them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Danish Prime Minister <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4406264\/us-no-right-annex-greenland-danish-pm\/\">Mette Frederiksen<\/a>, who also signed the Tuesday statement, said Monday that a U.S. operation against Greenland would be the death of NATO.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4406264\/us-no-right-annex-greenland-danish-pm\/\">US HAS &lsquo;NO RIGHT&rsquo; TO ANNEX GREENLAND, DANISH PRIME MINISTER SAYS, URGING END TO THREATS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If the United States chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops,&rdquo; Frederiksen said in an interview with Danish broadcaster TV2. &ldquo;That is, including our NATO and thus the security that has been provided since the end of the Second World War.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Greenland is an autonomous territory within the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/denmark\/\">Kingdom of Denmark<\/a>, a multiterritorial sovereign state composed of Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and metropolitan Denmark. The territories are united under the Danish monarch, currently King Frederik X.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miller: US should claim Greenland; Europe alarmed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3468,"featured_media":2530543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AP26006437044056.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67102,47289,48816,37683],"class_list":["post-2530542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-european-allies","tag-greenland","tag-stephen-miller","tag-u-s-foreign-policy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AP26006437044056.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2530542"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2530546,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530542\/revisions\/2530546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2530543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}