S8 Ep346: SEGMENT 13: NATO'S DECLINE AND THE GREENLAND CRISIS Guest: Gregory Copley Copley argues the Greenland controversy reveals deeper fractures signaling NATO's erosion. Discussion examines how the alliance has weakened through neglect and diverging interests,
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
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SEGMENT 13: NATO'S DECLINE AND THE GREENLAND CRISIS Guest: Gregory Copley Copley argues the Greenland controversy reveals deeper fractures signaling NATO's erosion. Discussion examines how the alliance has weakened through neglect and diverging interests, European defensiveness over Arctic claims, and whether the transatlantic security architecture built after World War II can survive current political and strategic pressures.
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| 0:53.4 | I'm John Bachelor. I welcome my colleague and friend Gregory Copley, editor and publisher of defense and foreign affairs, to comment on the big picture right now. |
| 1:02.3 | What we know and what we look to know in the immediate future about risks, global risks, because of armed conflict and because right now has a breakdown in |
| 1:13.2 | communications, even among allies. Bloomberg reporting, this is remarks by the Prime Minister |
| 1:20.5 | of Denmark. The U.S. President threatened to impose new tariffs from February 1st, |
| 1:26.6 | writes Bloomberg, on the eight |
| 1:28.5 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies that are sending military personnel to |
| 1:33.1 | Greenland, that are escalating tensions between Washington and Europe, concludes Greenland. |
| 1:39.8 | Danish Prime Minister met to Frederikson on Tuesday, warned, Europe would have to respond if |
| 1:45.0 | the tariffs are implemented, and that there could be major consequences on both sides of the |
| 1:50.4 | Atlantic. If a trade war is launched, said the Prime Minister, which I cannot recommend, then we |
| 1:56.7 | must, of course, respond. We would be forced to do so, she said, during a Q&A. I hope we do not |
| 2:03.4 | get to that point. I hope that we succeed in convincing the Americans that this is not the path |
| 2:09.5 | we should take. Gregory, I come to you because for some time you've been carefully outlining |
| 2:14.2 | to me that at the bottom of this is NATO that no longer has a mission |
| 2:20.5 | and that NATO might be over before it recognizes it's over. |
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