Trump versus NATO, target Greenland

For Canada, the problem is that all the (false) American arguments to justify annexing Greenland apply equally to Canada. The strategy seems to be to stay low and pray.

Why is U.S. President Donald Trump so obsessed with Greenland? The best guess in NATO circles is that it’s an extension of his old mania of putting his name on every hotel he owned. In this case, it gets his name in American history books, writes Gwynne Dyer. White House photograph by Joyce N. Boghosia

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

January 19, 2026

LONDON, U.K.—After the Danish and Greenland foreign ministers came out of a meeting in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 14 convinced that United States President Donald Trump really intended to seize Greenland, things moved very fast. Except in Canada.

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