Under Article V of the NATO Charter, an armed attack against one NATO member is considered an attack against all members, including the United States itself. If the U.S. were to carry out its threat to attack Greenland—a Danish territory, and Denmark being a close NATO ally—this would create a highly bizarre and unprecedented situation.
Who Will Run Greenland Afterward?
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The TMI Show" talk show. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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The NATOceanian government is a past master at doublethink…..
I’m thinking that if Trump invades Greenland, it’s basically the end of NATO because, no, no one in NATO is going to come through on this at the end of the day for … Greenland. Greenland has the population of a city block. And, when you get right down to it, how many of them, genuinely, care, one way or the other who “the government” is? Europe isn’t going through another global conflict for a “principle.” Read Barbara Tuchman’s “The Guns of August.”
I don’t think ANYONE who signed on to NATO did it expecting one of its OWN members to cause a conflict. This was something to counterbalance Mother Russia. The idea of the various countries in NATO (what is it, like two dozen plus?) trying to organize an international fleet to invade the U.S.? It’ll never fly. There’s a great big ocean in the way. It’s simply mathematically impossible for a Euro-invasion to succeed.
So NATO dissolves — or reforms sans U.S. — and Russia starts probing at borders, trying to build back Glorious Soviet Empire Hogan Darling. With no other powers in play, Trump goosesteps into Mexico on his way to Patagonia. Sugar cane and coffee cup. Copper, steel, and cattle. The forest for the fire.
The part I have the biggest problem with is Trump and Putin’s inability to realize that they’re both elderly men with a relatively short span of time left. Their twin dream to build empires can’t be done in six months. Even if Trump gets a third term (by whatever means), he simply isn’t going to live long enough. This isn’t some fit, trim, 80-year-old using a Stairmaster every day. (“I’ve got more pep!”) This guy might not even make it to the Semiquincentennial, and that’s less than 200 days away. The idea of a world with Trump in 2032?