U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday he will meet Danish leaders next week as the Trump administration presses ahead with its goal of acquiring Greenland, signaling no retreat from President Donald Trump's ambitions despite alarm among NATO allies.

Marco Rubio said Europeans should not fear for NATO's future after alarm Trump prompted Germany's Friedrich Merz to urge independence from the US.

Rubio met with members of Congress on Monday to debrief them on the U.S.’s attack on Venezuela, which included the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro. When a lawmaker reportedly asked about Trump’s comments on Greenland, Rubio responded that the administration was seeking to buy the country.

And yet, by comparison, Rubio seems less like a foreign-policy adviser and more “like a support staffer for the President,” Filkins writes. “Ultimately, he has to be a hundred per cent loyal to the President,

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to meet with officials from NATO ally Denmark next week. This comes as the Trump administration pushes to acquire the Danish territory of Greenland. Dr. Sumantra Maitra, fellow at the Royal Historical Society of London, joins with analysis.

US secretary of state Marco Rubio on Wednesday announced that he will be meeting officials in Denmark next week."I'll be meeting with them next week," Rubio told news agency APThe demand for Greenland is not a hidden fact.

The price tag starts at least $3.3 billion, per the World Bank, but rare-earth mineral valuations could bring it up into the trillions of dollars.

As NATO prepares for war games around Greenland, Russia is highlighting the Trump administration's disagreement with its closest allies over the island.