European NATO leaders have issued a joint statement that “Greenland belongs to its people” and it is for the Arctic island and Denmark only to decide on its future, after President Donald Trump’s administration reiterated its wish to take control of it.
The statement said that NATO and its allies had increased its activities and investment to make the Arctic a safe place and that Denmark and Greenland were part of that alliance.
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Not all. We’re not going to station a hundred thousand troops on Greenland. That war is going to be fought mostly at sea and in the air, with relatively small numbers of arctic units on the ground.
The main thing we need is subs to sink the aircraft carrier they will send. The US is about as far from Greenland as the UK, while Canada and Iceland, both NATO, are closer. That gives us the advantage of closer airfields and fjords to hide subs. Once the US loses a carrier group to Trump’s folly, they’ll reconsider the wisdom of their greedy aggression. Maybe not Trump and Miller, but everybody else will.
I don’t think we should engage with their carrier in the air. Our air forces are first needed in Ukraine to provide air cover for a breakthrough there. I know it sounds utterly nuts, but I think NATO has a fair chance of fending off Russia and the US at the same time. But we need to be more decisive than we generally are.
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