Denmark and Greenland want Rubio talks after White House threat that ‘U.S. military is always an option’

Tensions escalated after the White House said Tuesday that the “U.S. military is always an option.” President Donald Trump has argued that the U.S. needs to control the world’s largest island to ensure its own security in the face of rising threats from China and Russia in the Arctic. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned earlier this week that a U.S. takeover would amount to the end of NATO. “The Nordics do not lightly make statements like this,” Maria Martisiute, a defense analyst at the European Policy Centre think tank, told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “But it is Trump,…