US president Donald Trump’s continuous talk about the forceful annexation of Greenland is raising ­questions few imagined would ever be asked. In response, Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, said that seizing Greenland would represent the end of the Nato alliance. A disastrously dangerous precedent of dissolving agreements between European states recognised since the end of World War II would be set. As to US security guarantees, what would they be worth in a paradigm where Nato itself was being threatened by Washington? Is history not there to remind us that superpower, exercised without super caution, can only end ruinously?

Source: Irish Independent January 13, 2026 07:01 UTC