If Trump snatches Greenland, he will be waging war against NATO ally Denmark, of which Greenland has been a colony since 1721. Denmark of course doesn’t have the military might to contest such a takeover, even if the rest of NATO joined it. From Uriel Araujo at lewrockwell.com:
American threats against Greenland have forced Europe to rethink NATO’s most basic assumptions. Trump’s foreign policy combines global interventionism with neo-Monroeist ambitions closer to home. The result is an Atlantic Alliance facing erosion not from outside enemies, but from its own power center.
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy has stated that “it would be the end of NATO” if the US were to annex Greenland, a remark prompted by President Donald Trump’s declaration that Washington would “do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not”.
Such alarmist-sounding warning has now suddenly become part of mainstream debate across Europe, as Germany pledges a larger Arctic role and senior officials in France, Poland and Denmark openly discuss contingency plans against a threat coming not from Moscow, but from within the Atlantic Alliance itself.
Trump’s renewed fixation on Greenland cannot be dismissed as yet another rhetorical excess. Jeremy Shapiro (Research Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations) has outlined how US pressure could win Greenland, by exploiting economic vulnerabilities, manipulating security arrangements, and even resorting to outright military intimidation. The scenario is no longer purely theoretical. Media outlets such as The Guardian, CNN, Al Jazeera, CNBC and the Financial Times have all reported, in recent days, on emergency consultations within NATO and the EU about how to respond if a NATO member were to threaten another with invasion.
For years, analysts across the ideological spectrum predicted that Trump, sometimes wrongly portrayed as a “pro-Russian” isolationist, would “kill” NATO by withdrawing from it. Both Atlanticists and some anti-imperialist commentators converged on the same conclusion, albeit with opposite moral judgments. Ironically enough, Trump is not threatening the future of NATO through retreat, but is risking its collapse through escalation so aggressively that it turns the Alliance’s logic inside out. As it turns out, an alliance premise on collective defense against external threats cannot survive if its leading power openly threatens to conquer allied territory.
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And the best bet is joining with Ivan for Greenland.
I love irony.
The globull warming fairytale won’t bring the gold, graphite and other minerals up from the ice sheet.