Lower thirds:

00:03 Report by / Teri Schulz
00:30 Patrik Oksanen / Stockholm Free World Forum
00:42 Ed Arnold / Royal United Services Institute
01:17 Anders Vistisen / Danish member, European Parliament
01:43 Per Clausen / Danish member, European Parliament

Script:

00:01
Last January President Donald Trump sent his son to Greenland, hoping to buy the semi-autonomous Danish territory.
 
This year Trump’s threatening to send planes of soldiers to take it by force. He says that would increase Arctic security. 
 
00:15
+++ SOT: TRUMP
“It’s so strategic.”
 
00:17
Trump’s Greenland gambit has instead done the opposite, suggesting the previously unthinkable: that NATO’s most powerful member would invade a smaller one in a fight over alliance territory.
 
00:31
+++ SOT: Patrik Oksanen, Stockholm Free World Forum
“It is a huge victory for Putin that we're even having this discussion.”
 
00:37
NATO is prepared to deal with attacks from the outside, not the inside.
 
00:42
+++ SOT: Ed Arnold, Royal United Services Institute
“NATO as an alliance, it's obviously militarily strong, but it is politically vulnerable. And we're just seeing how politically vulnerable it is at the moment.”
 
00:54
When a country feels threatened, it has the right to convene emergency consultations at NATO under what’s called Article 4…but with the U-S as the source of Denmark's insecurity sources say Copenhagen will be heavily pressured not to do this.
 
Likewise, the idea that European allies could send forces to protect Greenland against attack is too far-fetched for a NATO conversation.
 
01:18
+++ SOT: Anders Vistisen, Danish member, European Parliament
“we don't think that we are going to see President Macron sending troops to Greenland or Chancellor Merz or Prime Minister Starmer or any other European NATO ally. This is something that has to be resolved between the Kingdom of Denmark and the US administration.”
 
01:32
And if it isn’t resolved, Danish Prime Minister Mette Fredriksen says NATO is dead. Danish European Parliamentarian Per Clausen says that would at least be true for Denmark.
 
01:44
+++ SOT: Per Clausen, Danish member, European Parliament
“how should you be a member of an alliance which helps to defend you, if the most powerful in this alliance is attacking you.”
 
01:56
Secretary General Mark Rutte has yet to comment publicly on the renewed tensions. When the 32 NATO ambassadors met Thursday, Greenland was discussed but only in the sense of how to collectively improve Arctic security. No one mentioned how counter-productive to that a U-S military intervention would be.