Trump’s Greenland plan uncovered by main flaw – ‘goes in opposition to the whole lot he believes in’
A top defence expert has exposed a ‘major flaw’ in Donald Trump’s justification for taking over Greenland as the US president again slammed NATO allies showed no sign of backing down
Donald Trump’s plot to take over Greenland clashes with his own comments on climate change(Image: AP)
Donald Trump’s deranged plan to invade Greenland has been slammed by a defence expert – who has pointed out a key flaw in his plot.
The US president launched into an extraordinary new tirade against NATO allies on his Truth social platform this morning, slamming Keir Starmer over the Chagos Islands deal and leaking a private text from France’s Emmanuel Macron.
And he showed no sign of de-escalating tensions over Greenland, telling reporters shortly before boarding Air Force One to Davos that the US would “have to have” the Danish territory.
But his repeated suggestions that he “needs” Greenland to prevent Russia and China from “taking” it in the future relies on projections of melting ice sheets opening up a sea invasion route – the very same climate change science his White House has repeatedly rejected.
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Professor Anthony Glees, professor of politics at the University of Buckingham, explained: “Let’s be perfectly honest, the frozen north is of strategic importance as it unfreezes. Unfreezes thanks to man-made global warming which Donald Trump doesn’t believe in!
“The sea routes may be defrosting. And that makes Russia and China a threat. We understand that – but that’s not a threat today.”
He also warned that the NATO alliance, which was founded in 1949 and survived the entire Cold War, would be torn apart instantly should the US launch an invasion of the Danish territory – and that even if Copenhagen were to agree to a negotiated sale, it would still spell the end for the alliance.
Professor Glees warned: “Were Trump to get Greenland, it would destroy NATO at a stroke. If he were to blackmail into selling it to him, it still would destroy NATO – but it would be a slower process. Could Canada exist as a sovereign nation sandwiched between two bits of greater America, to the North and the South? I don’t believe it.
“America became the superpower, it defeated communism because of the Atlantic Alliance, because of NATO, because America got strength from NATO as well as the European NATO members gaining strength from America. And Trump just doesn’t seem to understand it.”
Yesterday, the defence expert of 50 years said Britain “should not ‘talk down our strength'” amid the growing crisis over Greenland – and said the US “does not have a veto” over the £23billion Trident nuclear deterrent as concerns grow over our military independence from Washington.
He explained: “We are heavily dependent on the United States of America. Nevertheless, we do have Trident missiles right now at this moment in time, and yes they need to be serviced by the United States of America.
“We have a maintenance contract with Lockheed Martin, American company, that just in 2024 was extended indefinitely. Everything surrounding the missiles, that’s American.
“But we control them and we can fire them if we ever needed to – there is no US veto on his doing so. So at this moment in time we are very strong and we shouldn’t talk ourselves into thinking we are very weak – we’re not.
“We need to stop talking down our strength and whining that we cannot live without holding Nanny’s hand. Because we can.”
