Category: Geopolitics

Geopolitical strategies, capabilities, and interactions focusing on how these dynamics influence security, relations, and Canadian interests.

Canada may send military to Greenland as show of NATO solidarity with Denmark [Updated]

Canada has drawn up plans to send a contingent of soldiers to Greenland for military exercises with other NATO allies in the face of threats from the US president to annex the semi-autonomous island controlled by Denmark.

Two senior government officials told The Globe and Mail that the Canadian Armed Forces is awaiting final political approval from Prime Minister Mark Carney before the soldiers are flown to Greenland.

In separate reporting, two senior Canadian officials told CBC News that a set of contingency plans were drawn up last week and presented to the federal government.

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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Greenland ‘can only be defended if it is part of the US’

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday, January 18, 2026, defended the president’s calls for the US to take over Greenland amid concerns from European allies that an annexation would destroy NATO relations.

Scott Bessent says Greenland ‘can only be defended if it is part of the U.S.’: Full interview

US increasingly focused on Canada to ensuring American dominance in the Arctic

The president’s intensifying focus on Canada behind closed doors, whose relationship with the US has been deeply strained since he came into office, comes as he transforms some of his longtime criticisms of America’s neighbours in the Western Hemisphere into actions aimed at expanding US power in the region.

Protecting Canada’s northern border is a key part of Trump and his top aides’ vision of “solidifying” the Western Hemisphere, as one of the US officials put it. As the Americans see it, the acquisition of Greenland would also benefit Canada.

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Pentagon ordered 1,500 soldiers to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota

The US Department of War has ordered some 1,500 active-duty soldiers to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota, US defence officials told The Washington Post on Saturday, January 18, 2026.

The soldiers are from two infantry battalions with the Army’s 11th Airborne Division, based in Alaska and specializes in cold-weather operations.

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What are the threats Canada faces today?

Alan Jones, a former Assistant Director of Operations for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) discusses the threats Canada faces, intelligence sharing, and whether or not the US poses a threat to Canada now and the extent to which that might affect intelligence sharing between Canada and the US.

Is the U.S. a threat to Canada? Former CSIS Assistant Director Weighs-in

DW interviews Ben Hodges: ‘Threatening Greenland is strategic madness’

Ben Hodges: 'Threatening Greenland is strategic madness' | DW News

Greenland, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, Venezuela ‒ In a wide-ranging conversation with DW Washington Bureau Chief Ines Pohl, retired US General Ben Hodges offers a blunt and deeply critical assessment of the US’ current foreign and security policy.

Hodges warns of serious damage to NATO, questions the lack of long-term strategy behind recent military actions, and explains why Ukraine is far from losing — and why that still matters for Europe’s security.

Chatham House Director warns ‘This does mark the end of the Western alliance’

Bronwen Maddox, Director and Chief Executive of the Chatham House international affairs think-tank, gave her annual lecture at the institution’s London headquarters on January 13, 2026, said, ‘We have had from President Trump what amounts to a revolution. He has given the US a radically new role in the world and – at the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence – a role that rejects the principles on which the US was founded: that government should be accountable to the people.’

Maddox added, ‘Most profound, we have had the rejection of principles of international law that the US helped forge – even if it often declined to apply those to itself. Venezuela brandished that rejection to the world, followed by the President’s intention to acquire Greenland.

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US senators introduce bill to prevent the US military from occupying or annexing NATO territories, including Greenland

The bipartisan legislation would prohibit the Pentagon and the US State Department from using funds appropriated by Congress to “blockade, occupy, annex, conduct military operations against, or otherwise assert control” over the territory of a NATO member state.

The legislation from senator Jeanne Shaheen, the top Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee, and Republican senator Lisa Murkowski comes as lawmakers in both parties have expressed alarm over President Donald Trump’s renewed interest in acquiring Greenland after the US recently captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro.

Trump on Sunday said the US would have the Danish territory “one way or the other”.

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Financial Times: US Senate introduces bill to stop military from occupying NATO territories https://www.ft.com/content/c8b309a0-d214-4bb7-9630-bfcaa91925a3

Europe is entering a new state of alert in the face of US hostility

Europe has entered a new state of alert in the face of US open hostility in areas that go beyond simple economic and technological competition and touch the deepest core of strategic and security issues.

A day after US military and civilian forces staged an illegal incursion into Venezuela, during which President Nicolás Maduro was kidnapped and captured and transported to New York City, Trump asserted that his country needs Greenland — an autonomous territory belonging to Denmark, a member of NATO.

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