President-elect Donald Trump says he won't rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland as he declared U.S. control of both to be vital to American national security.
Essentially that would be the US invading another NATO country (Denmark) and annexing it’s territory. Which I think would call for article 5 (In this case an act of war against all of NATO by the largest military of NATO).
In practice, would Denmark and the rest of NATO just not call it an invasion? Send a bunch of strongly worded letters about an “unauthorized intrusion” or something?
I have no idea.
I mean I think Trump is probably saying these things just to stay in the spotlight or distract from other news, like he often does.
Hypotehtically say he sent the amilitary to take Greenland what would the outcome be
I mean
Good question
Essentially that would be the US invading another NATO country (Denmark) and annexing it’s territory. Which I think would call for article 5 (In this case an act of war against all of NATO by the largest military of NATO). In practice, would Denmark and the rest of NATO just not call it an invasion? Send a bunch of strongly worded letters about an “unauthorized intrusion” or something? I have no idea.
I mean I think Trump is probably saying these things just to stay in the spotlight or distract from other news, like he often does.
Would probably get Greenland and the US would face a lot of hostility. But he doesn’t seem to care about consequences much.