"Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk claimed any attempt by the US to 'annexe' Greenland would mean the 'end of the world as we know it', during a presser in Warsaw on Thursday. "A conflict or an attempt to annexe territory a country that is a member of NATO by another country that is also a member of NATO, and moreover, the United States, that would be the end of the world as we know it," he said. "[It would mean the end of] security. Not only for us. It also guaranteed the world order based on NATO solidarity, which restrained, in the world and especially in Europe and North America, restrained evil forces associated with either communism, terrorism, or other forms of international aggression and attempts to break the international order," Tusk went on. On Wednesday, Donald Trump reiterated that he 'needed' Greenland for 'national security', after the foreign ministers of both Denmark and Greenland held crunch talks with Marco Rubio and JD Vance in DC on Wednesday. "If we don't go in, Russia is going to go in, and China is going to go in. And there's not a thing that Denmark can do about it, but we can do everything about it," Trump claimed, while joking that all Denmark had done was 'send an extra dog sled'. Earlier, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen appeared to accuse the US of lying about 'Chinese warships' near Greenland, as he and Greenland's Vivian Motzfeldt held a press briefing. "It is not a true narrative... that we have you know Chinese warships all around the place. According to our intelligence we haven't had a Chinese warship in in Greenland for for a decade or so, so from that perspective it was a very constructive meeting as I said, frank discussion among equal partners," Rasmussen said. On Thursday, Germany said it was sending 13 soldiers to Greenland, while Sweden added that it was sending 'several' of its own. Earlier this week, the UK, France and Germany discussed deploying NATO troops to the region, which some media reports suggested was about 'easing Trump's security fears' and others claimed that it was about 'deterring' the US president. Trump has repeatedly said he wanted control of the Danish territory since his re-election in 2024, with it triggering debate over Greenland's own difficult relationship with its former Danish coloniser."