Ben Hodges: What Happens to NATO if Trump Invades Greenland - The Global Gambit - Pyotr Kurzin

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What happens to NATO if the threat comes from inside the alliance itself?

Here, General Ben Hodges examines a high-stakes scenario: Donald Trump threatening to take Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, and what that would mean for NATO, European security, and the future of U.S. leadership.

If a U.S. president is willing to exert pressure as seen in Venezuela —or even use force against—an ally, NATO’s core assumptions collapse. Article 5 was built to deter external adversaries like Russia, not to manage internal coercion by the alliance’s most powerful member. We see how NATO would respond in practice, the limits of European defence capabilities, the role of political will, and why the Arctic and Greenland have become strategically central to global security and great-power competition.

This is not a theoretical debate. It is a stress test of NATO’s credibility, alliance cohesion, and relevance in a world where American power is increasingly unpredictable.