France has asked for a NATO exercise in Greenland and is ready to contribute to it, French President Emmanuel Macron's office said on Wednesday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the bid by U.S. President Donald Trump to take over Greenland poses a “deep crisis” for NATO and raises questions about the alliance’s preservation as a single military-political bloc.

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The time for flattering Donald Trump is over and Europe should hit back hard economically if the U.S. imposes tariffs on NATO allies that sent troops to Greenland, ex-NATO boss and former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Tuesday.

While Europe is pushing back publicly against U.S. President Donald Trump over Greenland, the language appears softer behind the scenes. Trump published a text message on Tuesday that he received from French President Emmanuel Macron,

The footage circulated as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration repeatedly expressed its desire to acquire Greenland (archived, archived), an autonomous territory of Denmark, most of which lies in the Arctic Circle. As of this writing, the Trump administration had not ruled out using military force to take the Danish territory.

Denmark and Greenland have discussed the possibility of having a NATO mission in Greenland and the Arctic, Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said on Monday.

U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker responds to President Trump's recent comments on Greenland and NATO after touting a productive call with the secretary general.