One Danish soldier

If even one soldier dies in Greenland due to American aggression, NATO nations would be forced to step in.

United States President Donald Trump often changes his mind, and the number of times he has said he will use force on Greenland is far greater than the times he has said he won’t, writes Gwynne DyerWhite House photograph by Molly Riley

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

January 22, 2026

LONDON, U.K.— In 1910 Henry Wilson, the British army officer charged with planning for a possible war with Germany, visited the French officer doing the same job in Paris, Ferdinand Foch. The Anglo-French alliance was still a tentative, semi-secret thing, so Wilson asked F...

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