[Salon] Fwd: A Brief Reflection on the American Annexation of Greenland

FM: John Whitbeck

Transmitted below is a link to a three-minute video of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, a/k/a "Trump's Brain", answering questions regarding the president's repeatedly declared intention to assert American sovereignty and control over Greenland.

As Miller and others in Trump's entourage proudly persist in insisting, when Trump say's that he will do something, "Trump does what he says."

https://x.com/atrupar/status/2008318519142686860?s=20

Realistically, if President Trump were to issue an executive order annexing Greenland and send even 100 troops to occupy Nuuk, the island's only significant settlement, whose 20,000 people constitute more than a third of the island's total population, would Denmark or any of its NATO allies, invoking Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, go to war against the United States over Greenland?

Dream on ... Greenland is a very low-hanging fruit which Trump is free to pick whenever he is so inclined.

Since I always try to seek silver linings, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has stated after Trump's latest reaffirmation that the United States needs to have Greenland and will have it that American aggression against Greenland would mark the end of NATO (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/05/trump-must-give-up-fantasies-about-annexation-says-greenland-pm).

Since NATO should have ceased to exist when its raison d'être, the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, ceased to exist and since, ever since NATO's illegal war of aggression aganist Serbia in 1999, it has functioned as an exclusively aggressive military alliance, the end of NATO -- or at least American withdrawal from NATO -- would be excellent news for mankind.