European leaders also worry that the U.S. approach, particularly its unilateralism, plays directly into the hands of Washington’s rivals. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas remarked that division among NATO allies benefits both China and Russia, who are poised to exploit cracks in transatlantic solidarity. Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez warned that any coercive American move against Denmark would embolden Vladimir Putin, effectively legitimizing territorial aggression and weakening NATO’s moral authority. The President of the European Parliament echoed these concerns, cautioning that punitive measures against allies risked setting a dangerous precedent that could destabilize global norms regarding sovereignty and collective security. For Europe, the Greenland dispute is not an isolated policy disagreement but a test case: if the United States can apply coercion here, what signal does that send about other contested territories, from Ukraine to Taiwan? Continue reading…
