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Troops from sev­er­al Eu­ro­pean coun­tries con­tin­ued to ar­rive in Green­land on Thurs­day in a show of sup­port for Den­mark as talks be­tween rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Den­mark, Green­land and the U.S. high­light­ed “fun­da­men­tal dis­agree­ment” over the fu­ture of the Arc­tic is­land.

Den­mark an­nounced it would in­crease its mil­i­tary pres­ence in Green­land on Wednes­day as for­eign min­is­ters from Den­mark and Green­land were prepar­ing to meet with White House rep­re­sen­ta­tives in Wash­ing­ton. Sev­er­al Eu­ro­pean part­ners — in­clud­ing France, Ger­many, the U.K., Nor­way, Swe­den and the Nether­lands — start­ed send­ing sym­bol­ic num­bers of troops al­ready on Wednes­day or promised to do so in the fol­low­ing days.

The troop move­ments were in­tend­ed to por­tray uni­ty among Eu­ro­peans and send a sig­nal to Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump that an Amer­i­can takeover of Green­land is not nec­es­sary as NA­TO to­geth­er can safe­guard the se­cu­ri­ty of the Arc­tic re­gion amid ris­ing Russ­ian and Chi­nese in­ter­est.