In recent months, media has focused on President Trump’s goal of acquiring Greenland from Denmark with a fistful of dollars, or force. Western Europe has voiced support for Denmark, and some countries have even sent small military teams to Greenland. As those nations are all members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), an intra-alliance war over Greenland would contravene the Treaty. Denmark’s Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, warns that if the United States annexes Greenland, it will mean the end of NATO. So what?
NATO was formed in 1949 to protect Western Europe and Western values from attack by the Communist Soviet Union.
Article 5, the most-cited paragraph of the NATO Treaty, commits signatories to defend any member from outside attack. This paragraph was written with the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact in mind, but neither has existed for nearly 40 years. So why should America continue carrying the NATO burden? A review of other Treaty articles shows how irrelevant the Alliance has become.
The Preamble of the NATO Treaty states, in part: “The contracting parties are determined to protect the freedom, common heritage and civilization of their peoples...”
Article 2 reads, in part: “The Parties will…promot[e] conditions of stability and well-being.“
Article 8 reads, in part: “Each party…undertakes not to enter into any international engagement in conflict with this Treaty.“
Since the end of the Cold War, NATO members have consistently ignored the Preamble, Article 2, and Article 8.
Liberal support of international refugee and migrant conventions have led to the uncontrolled growth of non-European colonies within the historical nations of Europe. The problem is so serious that a city like London is no longer European. Studies have linked steep increases in murder and sexual crimes against Europeans to these migrant settlers. In recent years, the vast majority of migrants have been draft-dodging men, whose culture, or interpretation of the Quran, allows them to rape European women without losing sleep. Each passing year brings the historic European peoples closer to extinction: migrants – whom liberal governments pay to have children – become more numerous each year, while European fertility rates have plummeted. In 20 years, the French will be a minority in France. White demographic problems are compounded by liberal policies that encourage youth to chase degenerate, dead-end lifestyles. Europe’s ruling class has decided that the historic Continent must die from an overdose of “Woke”.
And this is what America has been defending for 40 years.
Now let us consider Denmark and its relationship with the United States.
In 986 A.D., Vikings from Norway landed in southern Greenland. After 400 years, they disappeared.
Danes and Norwegians returned to re-establish settlements. In 1814, Norway became part of Sweden (1814-1905), but Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands stayed with Denmark.
In the Caribbean region, Denmark acquired the islands of St. Thomas (1672), St. John (1718), and St. Croix (1733). The islands became known as the Danish West Indies. Run as slave plantations, they produced sugar, rum, and molasses, until the mid-19th Century.
Meanwhile (1775-1783), the United States of America won its independence. Over time, the minor nation grew into a world power.
In 1917, the United States bought the Danish West Indies for $25 million dollars in gold. This was done to prevent Germany from gaining a foothold in the Caribbean region. The name of the islands was changed to the US Virgin Islands. This was the first instance of America expanding into a former colony of Denmark.
Like the Danish West Indies, America took an interest in Greenland for security reasons.
During World War 2, the German Army overran Denmark in 6 hours. The US worried that Nazi Germany would take control over Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. British forces occupied Iceland in 1940. In July 1941 (5 months before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor) the US took over in Iceland, so that England could send troops elsewhere. In 1944, Iceland became independent of Denmark.
Greenland turned to the United States for protection. In 1940, the US sent two Coast Guard vessels there with supplies and a diplomatic team, to begin the process of turning the island into a protectorate. American military forces stopped several German attempts to establish secret bases on Greenland.
But there was no protection for Greenland’s Inuit natives, when Danish governance returned. Seeking to reduce Inuit numbers, the Danes forcibly gave contraception to thousands of Native women and girls, during 1960 and 1991. Between 1966 and 1970, over 4,500 women and girls involuntarily received intra-uterine devices (IUD).
After World War 2, the US and Denmark were allied under the NATO Treaty. When the 1991 collapse of the USSR left NATO without an enemy, the liberal elites turned against their own citizens: step-by-step they proceeded to destroy the Western heritage and European peoples that the NATO Treaty had bound them to protect. (Ironically, Russia rediscovered Christianity and Western values, and lives them as a parliamentary democracy.) The draconian Covid-19 lockdowns and the covert NATO destruction of the Nordstream pipeline, are recent examples of this treachery. According to journalist Seymour Hersh, that destruction was carried out by US Navy Seals, under orders from President Biden. West European governments covered up the truth.
Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was complicit: her government concluded the Pipeline was sabotaged, yet inexplicably decided against more investigation. It is difficult to have sympathy for Mette Frederiksen, who winked at the energy loss imposed on Denmark and Europe. So now the world should come running, when she drops her handkerchief and cries ‘Greenland is not for sale’? It’s not as though the Danes never sold territory before.
Europe’s liberal elites are driving their nations over a cliff, so the United States must look out for its own security. To that end, America can embrace friends closer to home – in places like Greenland and Western Canada.
Patrick Cloutier is the author of Mussolini’s War in the East 1941-1943. The CSIR and ARMIR on the Russian Front.
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