Danish PM says US attack on Greenland would be the end of NATO

"Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has warned that any bid by the United States to take over Greenland will result in the end of the NATO military alliance, as reverberations from Washington's military attack on Venezuela and the abduction of its leader are felt across the globe. Frederiksen made the comments on Monday following US President Donald Trump's latest calls for the Arctic island to come under direct control of Washington."

"If the United States chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops, said Frederiksen. That is, including our NATO and thus the security that has been provided since the end of the second world war, she told Danish broadcaster TV2. Trump has not ruled out using military force to take control of Greenland, and last month, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry, who publicly supports annexation, was named as special envoy to the mineral-rich Arctic island."

Any U.S. bid to take control of Greenland would end NATO cooperation and undermine the alliance's post–World War II security guarantees. Recent U.S. statements advocating Greenland's transfer to American jurisdiction and suggestions of possible military action have raised alarm in Denmark and Greenland. Those concerns intensified after a U.S. military operation abducted Venezuela's leader and his wife. Greenland is a semiautonomous territory of the Danish kingdom and is covered by NATO obligations. Symbolic gestures advocating annexation and the appointment of a U.S. special envoy have been called disrespectful by Greenlandic authorities, who nevertheless urged calm.

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