Action is needed to protect both Canada and Greenland, writes Gwynne Dyer, because a Trump invasion would mean the end of NATO

The alarming events of the past couple of weeks have made it clear that not one but several crises are likely to occur in the relatively near future.

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It’s hard to predict how they will interact, and we cannot arrange them in any particular sequence. However, they certainly would interact — and they would all involve the United States.

The first and worst would be a civil war in the United States, probably emerging from a disputed outcome in the mid-term elections in November. The incumbents usually lose control of at least one House of Congress in the midterms, and it’s almost certain that the Democrats will win control of the House of Representatives this year.

That would severely hamper Trump’s ability to reshape US politics in his image, and he has a record of rejecting the results in elections he loses. With Trump’s private militia of recently hired ICE gunmen already deployed in Democratic-governed cities, he would be tempted to do in 2026 what he came so close to doing on Jan. 6, 2023.

The likelihood of such an extreme violation of the US Constitution........

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