President Donald Trump, reportedly encouraged by a recent military strike on Venezuela, has allegedly directed U.S. special operations leaders to draft a plan for a potential invasion of Greenland.
According to Mediaite, a Saturday report in the Mail claims that President Trump tasked the Joint Special Operations Command with preparing an invasion blueprint, but that senior Pentagon leaders are pushing back on legal and constitutional grounds. Military brass are said to fear that such an operation would lack congressional authorization and could trigger a major international crisis.
The generals think Trumps Greenland plan is crazy and illegal, an unnamed diplomatic source told the outlet. So they are trying to deflect him with other major military operations. They say its like dealing with a five-year-old.
The report notes that President Trumps interest in Greenland has already rattled Americas NATO partners, especially Denmark, which retains sovereignty over the island. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has warned that any U.S. attack on Greenland would spell the effective collapse of the NATO alliance, a prospect that would fundamentally reshape Western security.
But the piece suggests that might be precisely the point, portraying Trump as willing to challenge entrenched multilateral structures that often constrain U.S. sovereignty. The Mail cited a diplomatic cable that speculated on the Presidents strategic thinking and his long-standing skepticism of NATOs value to American taxpayers.
Since Congress would not allow Trump to exit NATO, occupying Greenland could force the Europeans to abandon NATO, the cable said, according to the report. If Trump wants to end NATO, this might be the most convenient way to do it.
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