Greenland Is on the Brink. Canada Is Nowhere in Sight |
It seems the world can shift into the unimaginable these days in the blink of an eye, the geopolitical version of The Twilight Zone. We are now talking seriously about NATO-on-NATO conflict, about war over Greenland, about the end of eighty years of the world’s most successful collective security alliance.
The latest developments are ominous. Talks in Washington on the future of Greenland between Denmark’s foreign minister, his Greenlandic counterpart, and a United States team led by Vice President J. D. Vance were inconclusive. A dangerous stalemate has emerged. The delegation from the Kingdom of Denmark failed to convince US officials to back off talk of annexing Greenland. Danish foreign minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said there remained a “fundamental disagreement” with the US. Rasmussen told a press conference, “We didn’t manage to change the American position. It’s clear that the president has this wish of conquering over Greenland.”
US president Donald Trump’s stated concerns are about security threats to Greenland, including a repeated mention of Russian and Chinese ships “swarming around.” There is no evidence of that. Trump has also expressed a lack of faith in NATO’s military strength. He says if the US doesn’t take over Greenland, Russia and China will. In reality, neither have any capacity or interest in doing so.
When reminded by Danish officials of the fact that the US, under........