And this is what they mean with the “death of NATO”, if precedent is set that Article 5 is voluntary the whole point of NATO collapses.
Good thing Denmark has a similar clause with both the Nordics and the EU, who although unhappy to go to war do see the value of keeping obligations toward friends and allies.
It would be hard to convince, let’s say, Turkey, Poland or Italy that some Danish island in the Atlantic is their problem too
And this is what they mean with the “death of NATO”, if precedent is set that Article 5 is voluntary the whole point of NATO collapses.
Good thing Denmark has a similar clause with both the Nordics and the EU, who although unhappy to go to war do see the value of keeping obligations toward friends and allies.
EU treaties mean that an attack on Greenland is an attack on Poland.
If anything, countries will see possibilities and profit in any conflict