President-elect Donald Trump declined to rule out using military or economic coercion as he detailed plans to seek greater US influence over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal during a press conference Tuesday.
That doesn’t mean that they’re not Danish territory, and Denmark is a member state, and the defence clause gets activated when the territory of a member state is under attack.
Differently put: The only reason that Argentinia didn’t find itself at war with the whole of the EU was because the defence clause wasn’t yet law during the Falklands war. NATO’s clause only applies on the northern hemisphere if I’m recalling it right, there’s definitely a geographical limit.
That doesn’t mean that they’re not Danish territory, and Denmark is a member state, and the defence clause gets activated when the territory of a member state is under attack.
Differently put: The only reason that Argentinia didn’t find itself at war with the whole of the EU was because the defence clause wasn’t yet law during the Falklands war. NATO’s clause only applies on the northern hemisphere if I’m recalling it right, there’s definitely a geographical limit.