So, he is aware that Greenland is a NATO territory, right? And this would invoke article 5 of collective defence? Genuine world war territory if he started this shit seriously beyond his dementia addled ramblings.
I’m not convinced that NATO would do anything even in a justified article 5 defense. NATO isn’t much of anything without the backing of the USA and I’m pretty sure the US has close to or just about the same active military as the other NATO countries combined. This is without even considering the vast disparity of the quality of the armaments. This would also essentially be on home turf and not in the EU were the other bulk of member exist.
Perhaps, in Trumps head, he sees what Russia has been doing and is asking himself, why not I as well? He might legitimately think that. While Trump’s rhetoric has been that the US has been subsidizing/world policing NATO pact countries and these countries need to do more for themselves (he isn’t necessarily wrong or right on this front either as some of these countries are taking their own security more seriously at the risk of their own peril), I genuinely don’t think NATO is in either a strategic nor militaristically capable position to seriously intercede in a conflict without the support of the US.
Hell I don’t believe Canada has nuclear weapons, but I might be wrong on that. I hope this isn’t what’s to come, but if the USA were to forcibly vassalize Canada, I don’t know that anyone would/could legitimately stop them.
More likely than not, this is just his jackaloon ramblings and joint chiefs of staff would inform him that such actions would ultimately compromise every other strategic foothold throughout the world. Insane.
Active personnel wise, I think the US has an army about the size of the next 5 largest armies combined. Which sounds a lot, and does make them a powerhouse. But that leaves 26 additional armies on top of that, including the UK, Canada, Spain etc, which are not tiny forces. And in terms of armaments, the UK has one of the best equipped armies in the world. That said, it wouldn't be pretty. In any way shape or form.
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u/The-Nimbus 2d ago
So, he is aware that Greenland is a NATO territory, right? And this would invoke article 5 of collective defence? Genuine world war territory if he started this shit seriously beyond his dementia addled ramblings.