Russia is taking sharp notice of President Donald Trump’s latest geopolitical maneuver: a full-court press to acquire Greenland. On Friday, the Kremlin criticized Trump’s strategy as “extraordinary from the standpoint of international law” and warned that the international order could be headed in a “different trajectory.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov took a veiled swipe at Trump’s America First doctrine, claiming, “He has said that international law is not a priority for him.” Russia, he said, is watching closely.
At the same time, Moscow is rejecting allegations that it has its own designs on Greenland. Earlier this week, the Russian government called suggestions of such ambitions a “fictitious pretext” cooked up by NATO to justify expanding its Arctic military footprint.
But few are buying Russia’s outrage. The country is still engaged in a bloody and unprovoked war in Ukraine, with over 2,500 Ukrainian civilians killed in 2025 alone by Russian strikes. Moscow’s attempt to lecture others on international law has fallen flat in Washington and beyond.
Trump, meanwhile, isn’t backing down. He insists that acquiring Greenland is critical to U.S. national security and a cornerstone of his proposed “Golden Dome” defense shield to protect the homeland.
“NATO should be leading the way for us to get it,” Trump warned. “IF WE DON’T, RUSSIA OR CHINA WILL, AND THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!”
In an interview last week, Trump downplayed international law as a constraint, suggesting he relies more on “his own morality” and “his own mind” when making strategic decisions. “It depends what your definition of international law is,” the president added.
Tensions in the Arctic are rising fast. NATO countries including Denmark, France, Sweden, and Norway are now conducting joint military drills in Greenland. Russia blasted those exercises as dangerous provocations and accused the alliance of manufacturing an “anti-Russian and anti-Chinese agenda” around Trump’s Greenland plan.
Trump’s special envoy to Greenland, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry, also sounded the alarm. “China and Russia have built more icebreakers in one year than the United States has built in the history of our country,” Landry told Fox & Friends. “They aren’t just building them for fun.”
Landry argued that securing Greenland is vital to “reinforce the Monroe Doctrine” and protect the U.S. from foreign adversaries seizing control of the Arctic’s future.
Still, Denmark is not budging. In a high-level meeting with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio earlier this week, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Greenlandic Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt drew a hard line.
“For us, ideas that would not respect the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark and the right of self-determination of the Greenlandic people are, of course, totally unacceptable,” Rasmussen said bluntly.
Despite the pushback, the Trump administration appears determined to move forward — arguing that in an increasingly dangerous world, strategic real estate like Greenland may determine the balance of power for generations to come.
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