{"id":26092,"date":"2026-01-19T12:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=26092"},"modified":"2026-01-19T13:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:51:10","slug":"who-can-save-nato-from-trump-as-he-escalates-bid-to-grab-greenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/who-can-save-nato-from-trump-as-he-escalates-bid-to-grab-greenland\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Can Save NATO From Trump as He Escalates Bid to Grab Greenland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NATO,North Atlantic Treaty Organization has had divisions but none like this. President Donald Trump has pitched the alliance into what some analysts call its worst crisis yet, escalating his bid to acquire Greenland and threatening new tariffs against allies that oppose him. Trump\u2019s tariff threat risks an existential breach with allies, raising fears of a fracture within the alliance that has underpinned global security for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

European Union ambassadors held emergency consultations in Brussels on Sunday, and several leaders of NATO allies who are friendly with Trump called to express resolve over Greenland, a semiautonomous Danish territory. There is palpable alarm on both sides of the Atlantic that NATO could collapse. Such a previously unthinkable scenario would represent a historic win for Russia and China and perhaps the most destabilizing outcome of Trump\u2019s two White House terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Washington, Republicans in Congress hold the most immediate power to restrain Trump. Lawmakers could block tariff measures or limit executive authority, but doing so would require breaking with a president who dominates their party. Their response may determine whether NATO\u2019s credibility survives intact. There is concern in Congress about Trump\u2019s antics, but the question remains whether there are sufficient senior Republicans so protective of NATO, a bedrock of U.S. global power, that they would gamble on an exceedingly rare breach with him. Cracks have emerged in Trump\u2019s power base in Congress notably over the Jeffrey Epstein files \u2014 but he remains feared by many GOP lawmakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Protesters rally in support of Greenland on January 17, 2026, in Copenhagen, Denmark. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Greenland, an autonomous territory, has firmly opposed Trump\u2019s ambitions. Its stance has become a rallying point for NATO allies, highlighting questions about sovereignty and whether smaller nations can rely on the alliance when challenged by its leading member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any European response carries risks. Trade measures could hurt both sides, while limiting military cooperation could weaken NATO\u2019s deterrence against Russia and China. Both rivals are watching closely for cracks in transatlantic unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, however, the fate of the alliance rests on a president who sees U.S. military power as his to wield without legal or constitutional constraints and who disdains NATO as a protection racket. Acquiring Greenland would be a legacy item greater than putting his name on the Kennedy Center or building a new White House ballroom. It would place him alongside Thomas Jefferson and William McKinley as presidents who expanded the territory of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NATO\u2019s survival may depend on whether Republicans in Congress act to restrain Trump and whether European leaders sustain unity without inflicting self-harm. Denmark and Greenland remain central to the dispute, but the alliance\u2019s credibility rests on collective action. Failure to resist Trump\u2019s escalation could mark NATO\u2019s gravest crisis since its founding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NATO,North Atlantic Treaty Organization has had divisions but none like this. President Donald Trump has pitched the alliance into what some analysts call its worst crisis yet, escalating his bid to acquire Greenland and threatening new tariffs against allies that oppose him. Trump\u2019s tariff threat risks an existential breach with allies, raising fears of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2096,4,5],"tags":[315,3950,3948,473,66,3645,3949,3738,3952,2269,138,49,3689,2302,3953,3951],"class_list":["post-26092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economics","category-featured","category-international","tag-china","tag-congress","tag-denmark","tag-donald-trump","tag-european-union","tag-global-politics","tag-greenland","tag-international-security","tag-military-alliance","tag-nato","tag-republicans","tag-russia","tag-sovereignty","tag-tariffs","tag-trade-retaliation","tag-transatlantic-relations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/donald-trump-14-gty-gmh-251106_1762458159908_hpMain_16x9_992.jpg?fit=992%2C558&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26097,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26092\/revisions\/26097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}