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Important note that Greenland is not in the EU (although Denmark is), so likely the EU would at first think this is not their concern. (I think this would be a wrong thing to think, but that's how it would be diffused at first.)

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> so likely the EU would at first think this is not their concern.

No, the EU might not contain the top-of-the-top when it comes to people aware of what's going on, but not even EU is so dimwitted to brush aside an invasion of Greenland as "not our concern".

Not to mention that Greenland is an autonomous part of Denmark, and Denmark is very much a part of the EU.

> No, the EU might not contain the top-of-the-top when it comes to people aware of what's going on, but not even EU is so dimwitted to brush aside an invasion of Greenland as "not our concern".

So far the French president is welcoming what happened in Venezuela. How do you imagine he feels about the implications for Greenland and Europe?

I believe he offered to station French troops in Greenland

When? Link?

He confused the foreign minister with the president.

https://www.politico.eu/article/france-fm-jean-noel-barrot-f...

They're not dimwitted, they're next-level cowards. Big difference. They will gladly take whatever Trump gives to them because they're more afraid about actually standing up for something.

Actually, no. There's also NATO, but I guess 42.7 is stronger than article 5.

So when Denmark invokes article 5, nato members like the US will declare war on the US?

That sounds very silly. Obviously the US breaking its treaty obligations doesn't mean that everybody else will.

Article 5 does not, contrary to popular belief, require military response. Go read the wording. It basically requires members to do exactly what they would be already required to do: whatever they want.

Here is a link for those like me who have not read Article 5 before, with additional comments:

https://www.nato.int/en/what-we-do/introduction-to-nato/coll...

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