EricHiggin said:
Qwark said:
If that's the case you can hardly blame these allies from turning to China. If USA invades Greenland NATO is finished, the European countries might recycle it to a new form without US. There will also be a rift between Europe and US and they will be allies no longer. In which case Europe will probably decouple from US and backtrack decoupling from China. There will be trade between US and EU, because both can't miss it. But that's it, no common agenda, no common goals, no defence cooperation, nothing. Which is partly a problem for US and EU. For US since their bases in Europe were quite valuable in the Middle East wars. They also could be useful for a big invasion of Iran. For Europe because defending the Baltics without nukes in the Baltics or Nordic countries is impossible. Though there is not a lot to gain in the Baltic for Russia to begin with aside from pride. Finland could quite easily flatten Sint Petersburg as countermeasure. Since it's in striking range, which would be a massive breach of the Geneva convention and would be a defacto genocide. However it's something Russia might not be willing to risc for a symbolic victory. |
Who says the USA needs to invade? There's more civilized ways to conduct the matter. Though even if Trump did make an offer too good to refuse, if Greenland wanted it, and Denmark refused, then who's really going to legitimately get upset if the USA were to invade after? Now if Greenland didn't want it, then that's another matter, but still, what's anyone really going to be able to do at this point? |
If Greenland wanted it (very big if and so far that answer is a hard no), and Denmark refused, then who's really going to legitimately get upset if the USA were to invade after?
The rest of EU would still be very upset and it would still be the end of transatlantic relations, in which US is escorted out of EU permanently. Like it or not there is also a defence pact in EU. Even if Greenland wanted it and yes the area is mostly self governed, (although it depends on Danish financial aid to survive), it's still Danish territory and invading Danish territory is the definitive end of NATO and EU and US calling eachother allies.
