The Danish government has warned Donald Trump that military action to take over Greenland will spell the end of NATO, as we read in the Washington Post:

As President Donald Trump renews his push to acquire the Danish autonomous territory of Greenland, the White House has described using military force as an option, a stunning threat against a NATO ally that would undermine the decades-old defense pact.

The remarks by Trump and his top aides have spread alarm across European capitals, prompting some of their most forceful responses to date and a warning by Denmark that military intervention would effectively end the NATO alliance. It comes shortly after the United States used its military to seize Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers in a Jan. 5 closed-door briefing that the escalation in rhetoric was part of a wider strategy to ramp up pressure on Denmark to sell the territory, one official familiar with the briefing said. Still, Greenland and Denmark have stood firm in response to pressure from the Trump administration. After a high-stakes meeting at the White House on Wednesday led by Vice President JD Vance, Denmark’s foreign minister said there remained “a fundamental disagreement” over the territory’s fate.

“We didn’t manage to change the American position,” said Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Denmark’s top representative at the talks.

Rich in untapped natural resources, sparsely populated and strategically located in the Arctic, Greenland has been a recurring fixation of Trump’s since his first term in office — when he floated the possibility that the U.S. purchase the island from Denmark, of which it is an autonomous territory. Denmark flatly rejected the prospect.

The island has deposits of diamonds, graphite, lithium, copper, nickel and gallium. It also has oil and rare earth minerals, such as neodymium and dysprosium, of which China and Russia are the top global producers, according to the Royal Society of Chemistry. Rare earth minerals can be used in smartphones, powerful magnets and defense technologies.

The island, which is technically part of the North American continent, is strategically situated along the GIUK Gap — named for the initials of Greenland, Iceland and the United Kingdom — where NATO monitors Russian naval movements in the North Atlantic. Over the weekend, Trump complained that the island was “covered” with Russian and Chinese ships. In response, European officials said that while Moscow and Beijing have increased their activity in the region, most of that is elsewhere in the Arctic, with no current spike in activity near Greenland.

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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has since responded directly to the suggestion the U.S. could use force to seize the island. “If the United States chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, everything will stop — including NATO and thus the security that has been provided since the end of World War II,” Frederiksen told a Danish television outlet.

The US taking over Greenland is inevitable, especially given the fact that it has oil, and rare earth minerals like neodymium and dysprosium, of which China and Russia are the top global producers. The United State wants to outcompete China and Russia, so it will take Greenland. If it does so aggressively, it will spell the end of NATO and widen the chasm between the US and Europe.