Trump's fixation on Greenland will likely spell the end of NATO, but Canada seems to be staying out of it for now

After the Danish and Greenland foreign ministers came out of a meeting in Washington on  Jan. 14 convinced that Donald Trump really intended to seize Greenland, things moved very fast.

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Except in Canada.

“We didn’t manage to change the American position,” said Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen. “It’s clear the president has this wish of conquering Greenland. And we made it very, very clear that this is not in the interests of the (Danish) kingdom.”

Within a day, European members of the NATO alliance were promising troops for a Danish-led military force to strengthen the giant island’s weak defences against the alleged threat of invasion by other, more distant conquerors: Russia (around 6,000 ice-choked kilometres from Nuuk to Murmansk) and China (about three times as far, Nuuk to Shanghai).

Oddly, not even the keenest strategist looking for plausible reasons to buy more submarines or whatever had hit upon this particular excuse before. But that was Donald Trump’s pretext for taking Greenland: “The US needs Greenland for the purpose of national security…It is vital for the Golden Dome that we are building.”

Hardly anybody actually believes this. The ‘Golden Dome’ is a proposed space-based........

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