The Trump Administration's insistence on annexing Greenland in the short term and making it an official territory of the United States is intriguing.
I think that if the issue is only about security in the Arctic region, Greenland, which is currently under the sovereignty of NATO member Denmark, could be given to the United States for military use. Even the Danish government has repeatedly stated that they are ready to give Greenland to the United States for use within the framework of NATO. But the Trump administration wants to simply annex Greenland and turn it into a new state. The US government is also offering to pay Denmark money in exchange for Greenland, just as it purchased Louisiana, Alaska, and Florida in the 19th century. It is likely that if Denmark does not agree, the US will choose to annex Greenland through invasion.
If we put the pieces together, the following logical conclusion emerges: if the US chooses the path of annexation, while it has the ability to easily take Greenland under military control within the framework of NATO, then Washington is really preparing to leave NATO. In fact, the US’s forcible occupation of Greenland, as the Danish Prime Minister put it today, “would be the end of NATO.”
In this sense, it can be said that before the US abandons its role as a “protectorate” in Europe, it intends to directly annex Greenland, which it considers one of the most strategic territories remaining in Europe, to its sovereignty.
It is not excluded that there have been certain discussions between Trump and Putin about the de facto end of NATO. Perhaps the expectation that the US will withdraw militarily from Europe can be explained as the reason for Russia’s relative silence against the backdrop of successive geopolitical losses.
In this regard,