By: Okoi Obono-Obla It appears the days of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)—a military alliance between the United...
By: Okoi Obono-Obla
It appears the days of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)—a military alliance between the United States of America and Western European countries, founded during the ascendancy of the now-defunct Soviet Union and the resultant ideological rivalry with the West as a bulwark against the expansion of communism—are teetering on the brink of disintegration. This is a consequence of the threat by President Donald Trump of the United States of America to forcefully buy Greenland or use military power to annex it from the Kingdom of Denmark. Efforts to use diplomatic channels to rein in Trump’s threat failed woefully this week after a meeting ended in fiasco, with neither party willing to back down.
The face-off deepened when European countries, also members of NATO, mobilised and deployed detachments of elite military contingents to the island, possibly to ward off a potential U.S. attack. Pundits are of the view that, in the event President Donald Trump refuses to use diplomatic means to reach a truce with Denmark and instead orders a military takeover of Greenland, it may result in a direct confrontation between European military detachments stationed on the island and the armed forces of the United States of America.
Conclusion:
The Greenland crisis underscores the fragility of NATO in the face of internal discord and unilateral threats. Unless diplomacy prevails, the alliance risks unraveling under the weight of confrontation between its own members.
@ Okoi Obono-Obla
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