As tensions simmered between the United States and Europe over President Donald Trump’s push to acquire Greenland, Russian officials, state-backed media and pro-Kremlin bloggers watched with a mixture of glee,

Putin has long sought to undermine the western alliance that he sees as a threat.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the bid by U.S. President Donald Trump to take over Greenland poses a “deep crisis” for NATO and raises questions about the alliance’s preservation as a single military-political bloc.

Negotiators have discussed proposals to check Russian and Chinese influence in the Arctic and transfer sovereignty over pockets of Greenlandic land to the United States, an idea opposed by Denmark.

It’s been a long-standing Kremlin strategy to drive a permanent wedge between the United States and Europe, dividing and weakening its traditional adversaries in the West.

CNN reports that Russia is expanding its influence in the Arctic amid Donald Trump’s plans regarding Greenland.

By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Russia is watching with glee as U.S. President Donald Trump's drive to acquire Greenland widens splits with Europe even though his moves could have serious security ramifications for Moscow,

Deploying parts of President Trump’s Golden Dome missile shield in Greenland would make Americans safer as the massive Arctic island is “critical” for the US to be able to stop an incoming intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launched by Russia or China,

Russia says Greenland belongs to Denmark - after four years of trying to take Ukrainian territory - Donald Trump threatened allies with more tariffs if they did not go along with his plan for the Dani

Trump’s envisioned multilayered “Golden Dome” could include space-based sensors to detect missiles. They could reduce the U.S. need for its Greenland-based radar station, said Marcuz, a former nuclear defense worker for France’s Defense Ministry, now with the Foundation for Strategic Research think tank in Paris.