A U.S. takeover of Greenland could be ‘shattering of NATO,’ warns Canada’s former military commander

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/united-states-greenland-nato-canada-9.7039960

47 Comments

  1. Trump and his Project 2025 minions are serious about annexing Greenland, which means they’re eventually going to come for Canada. He was never joking to begin with, only testing the water.

  2. catalystignition on

    I think it’s pretty obvious what would happen to NATO but you might as well be talking to a post for all that tRump will listen.

    The Russians and the Chinese must be laughing up a storm. I wouldn’t want to be in Ukraine or Taiwan when the balloon goes up.

  3. CyberRagingRoastX on

    This makes me wonder.. if Trump does come for Canada.. Would our European Allies come help defend us?

  4. I just hope the rest of NATO are having talks behind the scenes and setting up some military strategy. I can’t imagine all these NATO countries just ignoring this rhetoric.

  5. It absolutely would be a shattering of NATO and the world order. It would be a crossing of the Rubicon moment if there ever was one.

  6. Dilosaurus-Rex on

    Yep, and we’d be caught in the crossfire. They take Greenland, they take Canada. People need to start waking up to reality and get ready to defend our nation. This isn’t just throw away rhetoric anymore. The world is fucked

  7. Franklin_le_Tanklin on

    We need nukes yesterday. We should be hosting French nukes on our soil until we can make our own

  8. Europe and Canada need to deploy to Greenland now ASAP before it’s too late. The yanks wouldn’t dare fire a shot if our collective troops of allied nations were stationed there.

  9. Redneckshinobi on

    This must be what it felt like to be around Germany many decades ago eh? Do actual Americans follow suit like the German population? What the fuck are we doing, this is insanity

  10. Who would this benefit?

    America gets to enjoy all the things allies bring: trading routes, markets.

    When are newspapers going to ask that question: who benefits?

    Or is that a no no to print?

  11. For reasons, I encourage Canadians to visit the RPAS Centre online and take their drone certification course. It’s like $10 or something. Learn to fly a drone.

  12. Start sending ships from Europe and soldiers .. like what is everyone waiting for ? They have already left NATO, who the fuck threatens allies. This admin is so fucked up. And they actually take orders from someone with dementia and the American people do nothing.

  13. Hefty-Station1704 on

    America maintaining its reputation for cowardice by threatening a much weaker nation. Problem here is any number of countries will stand in opposition. All this MAGA rhetoric is writing a check that the US can’t cash. Imagine telling future generations you lost a limb or relative in the Battle of Greenland. The jokes would write themselves.

  14. Why is the US military silent? I thought they had some smart leaders who understand what the constitution is?

  15. CodeNamesBryan on

    Cant wait for when historical video games replace Nazi Germany, Russia, China with the United States.

  16. If they take Greenland and the west doesn’t cut them off completely from trade we need to overthrow our own leaders.

  17. The annexation of Greenland will be much more than just the end of the Nato alliance. It will mark a return to the age of empires v2.0. We would enter into world where the only thing that matters is the military might. Whoever does not have it, will be in a serious risk of being chopped.

  18. Finicky_Cyclone on

    This can go pear shaped REAL quick ladies and gents. There will be warning and indications though. CAF members are embedded everywhere with the US military. Heck, the NORAD commander is Canadian. When these folks get sent home or relieved, then we’ll know things about to get real.

    I hope I’m wrong.

  19. I saw Wayne speak at the War Museum last year. He was asked about the meeting of the US officers where Hegseth spoke. I thought he was quite poignant when he said that he noticed none of the generals stood to applaud or roared in agreement. Just a bunch of stoic faces giving mild applause, not zealots.

    Of course he’s right about Greenland, but I hope he’s right about the military. I hope they are brave enough to disobey illegal acts of war.

  20. Every 50 to a 100 years along comes a maniac promising prosperity from violence and ends up bringing only Ruin.

  21. Conscious-Food-9828 on

    Can we fuck off with the warnings and start doing something? NATO should start putting boots on the ground in Greenland and make it perfectly clear that they will not allow it to happen. Right now the consequences of the US taking over Greenland is that NATO will be very upset. They might even get some hate mail. Quite the conundrum…

  22. Save both countries the destruction, horror, and loss of life, and have your military mutiny against your abomination of a government. Problem solved.

  23. You have representatives from various countries saying that this is going to shatter NATO, but these people don’t understand that the Trump administration doesn’t care about NATO. So these statements carry no weight with them. To them, NATO is just the US paying for European (and Canadian) defence and would be happy to see it implode.

  24. I said years back during Trump 1.0 that this was going to happen and was called a ‘conspiracy theorist’. Looking back that was probably his RuZZian troll farm spamming me. The NATO countries are much stronger now than they were when NATO was formed. Most countries were in rough shape after WWII battlegrounds levelled everything. NATO can make it without USA if the countries act now to detach themselves from the Orange regime.

  25. itsnevergoodenough00 on

    Trump is a dictator who is terrorizing his own people through federal agencies. He’s taking over Venezuela.. he’s the next Hitler and no one is stopping him.

    America needs to be cut off from all of our trade deals and we need to open up more partnerships across the world. The world needs to stop paying attention to the US, stop buying their products and cut ties completely.

  26. cobrachickenwing on

    It would mean the US is out of NATO. And NORAD would end. Canada would then be forced to the Gripen and end any F35 procurements despite their superiority.

  27. WhydYouKillMeDogJack on

    Could be?

    If NATO’s biggest member just invades the land of another NATO member, NATO is done.

    Because either you need to expel the teeth of the alliance, or everyone else in the alliance has to take military action against them or else it means all the pacts are worthless.

  28. That’s what Trump wants. He wants out of NATO. And Putin would love to see NATO fall apart.

  29. SHUT_DOWN_EVERYTHING on

    It won’t be just NATO. It would also be separation of highly integrated cross-atlantic economies.

    US has enjoyed dominating software and services in Europe as an example because Europe relies so much on the US. A hostile US will not have access to those markets, at the very least governments and sensitive industries will kick Microsoft, Oracle, Google, etc. out.

    If orange clown thinks trade imbalance is bad right now, imagine what it would look like when US tech cannot sell to Europe.

    If you put together US to EU exports of digital services, ICT services and IP charges, that’s anywhere between $600B – $800B and rapidly growing.

  30. 10$ bucks that other NATO member are just gonna grumble about it, but would just accept the loss.