In the blog-post of 6 January, I speculated upon the little local difficulty President Trump would have in annexing Greenland to the USA. This because there are two sets of actions involved. The first is to acquire physical possession and control of the territory. This for the USA with Greenland is relatively straightforward. It is however the second action where the difficulties would lie: Annexation!
Invading Greenland is one thing. Getting the House of Representatives and the Senate to pass a Bill of Annexation is another matter entirely!
Then in the blog-post of 11 January, I speculated about the necessity to establish a casus belli to enable President Trump to give the necessary orders to the US Service Chiefs to invade Greenland – this because these gallant gentlemen require their orders to be legal!
I went on to speculate about possible false flag operations to concoct such!
However, we have since learned that such deception will NOT be required. This because the Trump administration may be able to argue lawful justification to invade Greenland by accusing Denmark failing to honour Article 3 of the NATO treaty.
Article 3: In order more effectively to achieve the objectives of this Treaty, the Parties, separately and jointly, by means of continuous and effective self-help and mutual aid, will maintain and develop their individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack.
America’s former Ambassador to Denmark, Carla Sands (https://youtu.be/ZSPtD65rFoM) argue this.
Legally, she has a weak argument but a weak argument is 100% superior to having no argument!
IF President Trump relies on this argument he will have to waive the element of surprise and issue an ultimatum to Denmark before invading Greenland.
Were the troops of allied nations stationed there their political leaders might issue orders for them not to oppose US Forces.
As for the Danes?