How to foil Trump’s annexation of Greenland

NATO leaders should immediately offer the autonomous Danish territory of Greenland permanent membership in the alliance.

The Royal Danish Navy frigate HDMS Triton passes an iceberg in the waters around Greenland.Photograph courtesy of NATO/Flickr

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

January 13, 2026

OTTAWA—In the early hours of Jan. 3, the United States military staged a whirlwind military intervention in Venezuela. When the dust had settled, President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were in American custody, charged with narco-terrorism and the possession o...

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