The Europeans have formed a puny coalition of the willing to defend Greenland against the United States.
In short, the answer is No. As one media commentator remarked vividly this week, the European leaders have less backbone than a jellyfish, so all their wobbly concern about Donald Trump wanting to annex the Danish Arctic territory will amount to little in the way of an armed conflict.
There may be some theatrics as in the deployment of European troops this weekend to Greenland. There will be lots of bluster from European politicians. But at the end of the day, the vassals will be slapped into line.
However, the mere fact that there is a theoretical question is instructive of how abnormal international relations have become under the 47th president of the United States. In a crazy sort of way, that is good because it exposes the fraud and bankruptcy of the "moral West."
For eight decades since the end of World War II, the U.S. has posed as the defender of European allies. The transatlantic alliance in the form of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was supposed to be the cornerstone of Western democracy, peace, security, and international law.
Now, with Trump's unalloyed ambition to annex Greenland, by military force if necessary, the whole facade of NATO is upended. The alliance is being attacked by its supposed leader, the United States.
Denmark and other European states are distraught, saying that if Trump goes ahead with his threats to "conquer Greenland," then it is the end of NATO.
Bring it on.
This week, Danish and Greenlandic diplomats met with Trump administration officials, Vice President JD Vance, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the White House to plead for respecting the sovereign rights of Denmark and Greenland.
Trump is having none of the diplomatic niceties. He continues to insist on taking Greenland under U.S. control, and he is not ruling out the use of military force. The American president has declared that the annexation is a matter of national security for the U.S. because, he claims, the Arctic territory is in danger of being taken by China and Russia.
China rebuked Trump for invoking it as a threat to justify his territorial acquisition.
Russia is the largest Arctic territory, and its North Sea Route is a strategically important shipping conduit between Europe and Asia. It doesn't need Greenland.
Trump's pretext of national security is risible. He is shamelessly playing the Russia and China "threat" card as a cover for what is simply a naked imperialist land grab. This is exactly what the Americans and Europeans hypocritically and baselessly accuse Russia and China of.
Greenland is the world's largest non-continental island, covering an area of over 2.1 million square kilometers. That's about three times the size of Texas. The Arctic territory is rich in oil, gas, and minerals that the United States covets for its economic future. The calculation is the same as Trump's criminal aggression against Venezuela.
If it were merely about national security, the U.S. has an air defense base on Greenland under a historic agreement with Denmark. Trump's disparaging talk about Denmark not being militarily strong enough to defend Greenland (with two dog sleds, he mocked) could be easily resolved by the U.S. beefing up its existing base capabilities.
So, the invocation of Russia and China as a threat is a cynical excuse by Trump to expropriate prodigious Arctic resources.
In any case, the Danish government has dismissed Trump's concerns about the risk of Russia and China taking over Greenland.
But when you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. Denmark and the other European lackeys have been outrageously playing the Russia threat card with regard to Europe's security. In that way, they have helped create the bogus narrative that Trump is now using to snatch the Danish territory of Greenland.
Historically, the European Union has become an abject vassal of the United States. It has bent over backwards to appease Washington in every violation of international law and illegal aggression that the Americans have embarked on. Most recently, when Trump attacked Venezuela and kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro, the Europeans cheered instead of standing up for international law. As Trump threatens war on Iran over its attempts to quell an orchestrated regime-change assault, the Europeans are again cheering on the aggression.
Washington's systematic and relentless violation of international law and the United Nations Charter over the decades has been enabled by Europe's complicity or cowardly acquiescence. The impunity that this has conferred has culminated in the open contempt for international norms under the Trump presidency.
The U.S. imperial power has no respect for international law or sovereignty, as Trump arrogantly boasts. The European vassals with their jelly-like impotence are being treated with the contempt they deserve.
The Americans decided to blow up Europe's strategic energy supplies from Russia with the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines in September 2022, bringing the European economies to their knees. And the Europeans didn't even blink in protest. They have debased themselves even further in waging a futile proxy war in Ukraine against Russia and destroying their economies by inordinate spending on the American military racket.
No wonder then that Trump is exploiting the European weakness to the hilt by grabbing Greenland.
As our columnist Ron Ridenour has documented in several articles, one of the most abject of the European vassals is Denmark, which has done Uncle Sam's bidding for years as an intelligence and propaganda asset. Denmark was a founding member of NATO in 1949. Copenhagen was also a Nazi quisling during WWII; its subsequent complicity with U.S. imperialism was par for the course.
So, as the American overlord turns the screws on his vassals, what are they going to do ? Nothing.
This weekend, the Danes, British, French, Germans, Dutch, Norwegians, and others are sending a token number of troops to Greenland in a signal of solidarity against Trump with Operation Arctic Endurance.
How ridiculous. The Europeans have been talking for the past year about forming a coalition of the willing to deploy in Ukraine, purportedly to defend the Kiev NeoNazi regime against Russia. Now they have formed a puny coalition of the willing to defend Greenland against the United States.
All the same, there is a beneficial demonstration. The absurdity of all this is instructive in that it shows several things: the fraud that is NATO, the lawlessness and impunity of U.S. aggression, and the total moral bankruptcy of the European "allies".