DONALD Trump is jetting to Davos where he will meet world leaders facing the spiralling Greenland row – which could spell the end of Nato.
European allies stood up to the US president during fiery speeches on Tuesday – after Greenland’s own prime minister said the island could “not rule out” an invasion.
Trump is currently en route to the annual event in Switzerland for a whirlwind visit where he will deliver a highly anticipated speech.
He will arrive slightly late – as his plane was forced to turn back to Washington shortly after take-off due to a “minor electrical issue” on Air Force One.
Scrambling European leaders are now bracing for Trump’s speech following days of doubling down on his threats to seize Greenland – or slap Nato allies with tariffs if they stand in his way.
When pressed on how far he’d be willing to push to get his hands on the Danish isle, the US president said late on Tuesday: “You’ll find out.”
He also rejected suggestions that his Greenland takeover could spark a Nato implosion.
The US president said: “I think that we will work something out where Nato is going to be very happy, and where we’re going to be very happy.
“But we need it [Greenland] for security purposes, we need it for national security and even world security.”
In an extraordinary warning, Greenland’s prime minister has ordered his own citizens to brace for war, saying that a military invasion could not be out of the question.
Jens-Frederik Nielsen said: “It is not likely there will be a military conflict, but it can’t be ruled out.”
Nato troops including one British officer, as well as multiple Danish units have been deployed to the self-ruling territory to bolster defences.
World leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron warned that the world was shifting into a place “without rules” at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen blasted Trump’s tariff threats, and called for a “new independent Europe”.
On Wednesday, she vowed that Europe would be “fully prepared to act if necessary”, and branded the changing world order as “not only seismic but permanent”.
Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney slammed Trump’s threats during his speech in Davos.
He said: “Canada strongly opposes tariffs over Greenland and calls for focused talks to achieve our shared objectives of security and prosperity in the Arctic.”
Carney warned that a “new world order” was under way and called on nations to wake up to the new reality.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who is already in Davos ahead of the American leader’s touchdown, has hit out at Europe’s retaliation threats.
He asked Western allies at the WEF: “Why doesn’t Europe just sit down and wait for Trump to address them?”
France has also asked for another Nato exercise in Greenland, and is ready to commit troops, Paris has revealed.
British surveillance units from the RAF and the Navy are currently in talks to join a new military “tripwire” deployed in Greenland, the i paper reports.
Macron is urging EU allies to prime their “trade bazooka” – a retaliatory economic measure which could cost the US around £80billion.
Donning a pair of aviator shades at the WEF on Tuesday, the French leader took several jabs at Trump in the face of the Greenland row.
He said the US president’s tariff threats made no sense while calling them an attempt to “subordinate Europe”.
President Macron also said that the union “prefers respect over bullies”.
President Trump has threatened to slap France’s wine and champagne industry with huge 200 per cent tariffs.
The move came in response to Macron reportedly snubbing Trump’s offer for him to join his new Board of Peace – an international initiative aimed at resolving global conflicts.
Trump said: “I’ll put a 200 percent tariff on his wines and champagnes.
“And he’ll join, but he doesn’t have to join.”
Frantic EU leaders will hold an emergency summit in Brussels on Thursday as the Nato alliance hangs in the balance.
The tariffs, announced by the president in a Truth Social post on Saturday, will come into force on February 1, if a deal has not been done to secure the Danish island of Greenland for the US.
The taxes could rise to 25 per cent if Trump still does not have the island by June.
