Denmark Doubles Down: "We Won't Negotiatiate Sovereignity"

Denmark confirmed that a 1952 military directive requires forces in Greenland to immediately respond to any attack without waiting for orders. The Cold War–era rule is longstanding, defensive in nature, and not targeted at the United States.

Three Russian Yasen-class submarines left their base at Zapadnaya Litsa and are suspected of tracking the U.S. carrier USS Gerald R. Ford near northern Norway.