• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    No, it wouldn’t. Not unless we end up with a world war.

    Trump attacking Greenland triggers article 5. Denmark calls for NATO to support them against this act of aggression.

    Either NATO steps up and together counters the US, or they collectively pussy out, and from there on every member knows that the alliance is a paper tiger. A promise on paper that means nothing in practice. And Putin immediately invades the Baltics.

    The only version of this where NATO survives without a war is one where the alliance is able to strongarm Trump into backing down from an invasion by threatening war, without actually having to go through with it. But if we’ve reached the point of the US actually invading a NATO member, I really don’t see “backing down” being in the cards.