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Richard Luscombe

Trump annexation of Greenland ‘would be end of Nato’, says Chris Murphy

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Chris Murphy speaks at the Capitol in Washington DC on 6 January. Photograph: Michael Brochstein/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

Donald Trump’s threat to annex Greenland represents an existential crisis for Nato, the senior Democratic US senator Chris Murphy has warned, with the demise of the decades-old alliance of western nations certain to follow any American military intervention.

“It would be the end of Nato, right? Nato would have an obligation to defend Greenland,” the Connecticut senator and member of the chamber’s foreign relations committee said on Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press. Murphy added that it would mean “clearly … we would be at war with Europe, with England, with France”.

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