"Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, can rarely be described as looking happy. His brick wall of a face and somber voice, worn down by many years of smoking Marlboros, have earned him the nickname "Minister No." But when the question of Greenland came up yesterday at his press conference in Moscow, Lavrov seemed to come alive, even permitting himself a smile and a chuckle as he talked about President Trump's imperial designs on the Danish territory and the response from NATO allies."
""That alliance," Lavrov said, "is going through a test of what it's good for." Some of its members, he continued, "have gone so far as to ask themselves whether it's time to break it up, because one NATO country is preparing to attack another NATO country." That confrontation has resulted in the "deepest of crises" within the alliance, Lavrov said. "I just want to highlight that the Euro-Atlantic idea of ensuring security and cooperation has discredited itself.""
Sergey Lavrov reacted with visible amusement to the Greenland dispute and framed it as evidence of NATO weakness. He said the alliance faces a test and suggested some members are contemplating breaking it up because one NATO country appeared prepared to attack another. Lavrov described the situation as the deepest crisis and said the Euro-Atlantic idea of security and cooperation has been discredited. The standoff redirected European military attention toward guarding Greenland instead of focusing on Russian threats in Ukraine. President Trump said the U.S. would not use force to seize Greenland but warned that "we will remember."
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