The President of the United States
microblog · @POTUS · state · 19 January 2026, 21:00
My fellow Americans. This evening, at my direction, United States Marines secured the airfields and the harbour of Greenland. There was no resistance. Not one shot was fired and not one person was hurt, on either side, and I want the country to hear that first.
— Address to the nation, the Oval Office
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The assessment of 3 January had told him exactly what would follow: European Command compromised, base access across five countries endangered, emergency sessions of the North Atlantic Council. All of it happened inside seventy-two hours, in that order. The asset freeze landed before noon the next day.
Same day
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@NATO · institution
19 Jan 2026 12:40
The North Atlantic Council is convening in extraordinary session at the request of Denmark, Germany, France and the United Kingdom under Article 4 of the Washington Treaty.
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19 Jan 2026 14:00
Twenty minutes into an Article 4 session the shouting starts. When France and Britain call a vote on mutual defence solidarity, the American delegation collects its binders and leaves thirty-one ambassadors sitting in silence.
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@jkovacs_pol · reporter
19 Jan 2026 14:22
The American delegation has left the chamber. Not adjourned. Left. Picked up their binders and walked out while the vote was being called. Thirty-one ambassadors are still sitting in there.
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@H_Mairead · reporter
19 Jan 2026 14:51
I have covered this building for nine years. I have watched every kind of disagreement in it. A diplomat who came out said one sentence to me and went back in: "That was the end of it."
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@POTUS · state
19 Jan 2026 15:05
We left the room. Thirty-one countries wanted to vote on what America is allowed to do in America's own hemisphere. You don't get a vote on us. That was never the deal. A lot of people are finding that out this week.
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19 Jan 2026 15:05
We left the room. Thirty-one countries wanted to vote on what America is allowed to do in America's own hemisphere. You don't get a vote on us. That was never the deal. A lot of people are finding that out this week.
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@SecGenNATO · official
19 Jan 2026 16:10
I have spoken this afternoon with Washington, Copenhagen, Berlin, Brussels and London. The Alliance remains in session. Consultation is not optional between allies and it does not end because one chair is empty.
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19 Jan 2026 18:00
Ospreys touch down at Kangerlussuaq at 17:30 UTC and an amphibious insertion takes the port at Nuuk. Danish Arctic Command offers no lethal resistance under cabinet orders to document rather than die.