edelsont | Wherein I disagree with the Danish Prime Minister

During the first week of 2026, Denmark’s prime minister warned that an American attack on Greenland would cause the end of NATO. She may very well have been correct.

Of course, I hope we never find out: I hope that our government never actually does anything so insane.

But is that what would happen, in the event of such a blunder? It certainly might, as I said, but I think it’s unnecessarily pessimistic to regard it as certain. There’s at least one other possible outcome, and I think it would be a better one:

The rest of NATO could expel the United States from the organization.

Or, if that’s not technically feasible, and NATO, as such, has to be dissolved, then the civilized countries among its former members could form a new organization, identical in its basic purpose, with a different name.