Juno News - Carney considers SENDING TROOPS to GREENLAND？!

00:00:00.000 Well, Canada may send troops to Greenland, apparently to try and discourage a U.S. takeover

00:00:10.620 of the island. The Globe and Mail is reporting the Canadian Armed Forces have drawn up plans

00:00:16.180 to send a small contingent of soldiers to Greenland for military exercises with NATO

00:00:21.820 allies. They're just waiting for Prime Minister Carney to give the go-ahead.

00:00:25.800 Carney says he's concerned about President Trump's escalating pursuit of Greenland.

00:00:31.260 I'd like to know what Canada is doing to protect the integrity of Greenland.

00:00:36.420 The future of Greenland is a decision for Greenland and for the Kingdom of Denmark. We are NATO partners

00:00:44.100 with Denmark and so our full partnership stands. Our obligations on Article 5, Article 2 of NATO

00:00:52.380 stand and we stand fuller square behind those. Now the U.S. of course is also a NATO partner but

00:00:59.260 is currently at odds with fellow members over Greenland's possible future as a U.S. territory.

00:01:04.560 As a result, Trump has imposed new tariffs on eight of its allies over their opposition to the plan.

00:01:11.160 As far as Canada goes, the move could further hurt Canada's already shaky relations with

00:01:16.360 the United States. NBC News with this headline, Trump's latest Western Hemisphere fixation, Canada.

00:01:24.280 The network reports that President Trump is becoming increasingly irritated with Canada over its

00:01:29.220 inability to defend its borders against encroachment from China or Russia.

00:01:35.160 Meantime, Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat and Chinese detainee, says there are huge risks

00:01:41.960 for Canada in becoming too economically dependent on China.

00:01:45.740 As our canola farmers know all too well, they were in some ways my fellow hostages the last time

00:01:50.540 Canada had a dispute with China. And so the risk in managing business with China is to make sure

00:01:55.700 that no particular sector or company becomes so dependent on the Chinese market that the Chinese

00:02:00.740 government can then use that and target that sector or company to apply political pressure to

00:02:05.500 try to change Canadian policies. That's the danger. It's that the Chinese Communist Party routinely 0.98

00:02:10.440 weaponizes trade and interdependence to exert geopolitical influence.

00:02:15.300 Now, Kovrig spent more than three years in a Chinese prison in retaliation for the arrest in

00:02:20.880 Canada by Huawei executive back in 2018. Our guest today is David Creighton, who did public affairs

00:02:27.860 with the Canadian Armed Forces for 14 years. Welcome, David.

00:02:32.180 Well, it's always nice to be with you, Mark.

00:02:34.660 Great to be with you as well. All right, let's talk a little bit about the possibility of sending

00:02:38.700 some soldiers, Canadian soldiers, to Greenland. Do you think it's a good idea?

00:02:46.120 I don't think any of this is a good idea. I don't think Donald Trump went into a next Greenland's

00:02:51.820 a good idea. I don't think NATO doing exercises on Greenland right now is a good idea. But Canada

00:02:57.160 cannot help but be involved in this. Greenland is right on our doorstep. And Canada obviously has

00:03:03.540 to show the flag in this exercise. And I don't know where this is going to go. I don't think

00:03:09.860 anybody does. I'm not sure Donald Trump knows where this is going to go. I don't think Mark Carney

00:03:15.080 knows where this is going to go. But in terms of us being there, if NATO is doing an exercise

00:03:20.540 on Greenland to show that Denmark does not really agree with Donald Trump's proposal,

00:03:27.180 then I think Canada has to be there. There's no question about that.

00:03:29.900 Now, do I think NATO is still a viable organization? No, I don't. But we can possibly get into that.

00:03:37.160 Yeah, the armed forces have drawn up plans to send a small contingent of soldiers to Greenland. We

00:03:43.120 don't know how small. Have you heard how many soldiers might be heading for Greenland, assuming

00:03:48.960 it happens?

00:03:49.560 Probably about 150.

00:03:51.680 150.

00:03:52.680 Which, of course, is not going to be any great impediment to the U.S. But I don't really believe

00:04:01.080 the United States is going to physically invade Greenland with an amphibious force. Where is

00:04:09.960 it going to come from? And certainly, I don't think they're going to use Labrador as a launching

00:04:15.380 post or in Nova Scotia. So I really find this whole thing to be so bizarre. It's like science

00:04:22.520 fiction right now in terms of what is going on here. And I'm almost tempted to laugh at

00:04:29.180 it, except this is quite serious. This is an international altercation about a country that

00:04:37.340 most people, let's face it, probably didn't know was still under the auspices of Denmark.

00:04:44.480 It's still basically a colony. It's a self-governing colony of Denmark. But what strikes me as passing

00:04:51.200 stranger, Mark, is the United States has had bases in Greenland since the Second World War.

00:04:56.480 So why do they suddenly need to occupy the entire country, which is just a block of ice?

00:05:02.660 You know, Iceland and Greenland really were misnomered because Greenland really should be

00:05:08.300 called Iceland. It is a nation of ice. So why the United States wants to occupy this block of ice,

00:05:15.200 I don't know. When it already strategically has controlled Greenland for decades. Denmark doesn't

00:05:20.560 strategically control anything. It's a member of NATO, a minor member of NATO. The days of the Vikings 0.93

00:05:26.980 are long past. So it's been essentially a United States sphere of influence and the United States

00:05:34.280 sphere of influence for 85 years. So I don't know why there's, you know, the urgency.

00:05:39.560 Tom says he wants Greenland because of the Golden Dome. And so if he's going to be bringing about this,

00:05:46.760 I guess, Star Wars program, you know, to shoot down enemy missiles, assuming they come over the

00:05:55.840 Arctic, the Golden Dome strategically needs Greenland in order to happen. And that's my understanding

00:06:03.900 of why, at least that's what he's talking about. And so he wants to turn Greenland into possibly a U.S.

00:06:09.000 territory. I mean, but should Canada impede in that in any way? Does it make sense for us?

00:06:14.280 I mean, the U.S. is still our ally and our relationship with that country has already

00:06:21.120 strained to say the least. Economically speaking, we've got apparently still trade talks coming up

00:06:29.180 with the United States in the spring regarding the USMCA slash CUSMA. I mean, do we really want to,

00:06:38.360 you know, risk that being upended because of Greenland? It doesn't make any sense to me.

00:06:47.060 Well, if we were there as part of a NATO force that was going to repulse a U.S. invasion,

00:06:52.820 I would say, yeah, that's probably a bad idea. If we're merely there because, and once again,

00:06:58.980 I'm giving, I'm being very generous to Prime Minister Mark Carney here and the Liberal government

00:07:03.820 when I say this. If they're there to show the flag that Canada is still a viable member of NATO,

00:07:09.220 that's what Canada is going to do. There's no two bones about that. Do I think NATO is a viable

00:07:14.740 organization? No. And I used to write the talking points for NATO when I was in Bosnia. Yeah, that

00:07:20.060 was a NATO exercise. Probably the last NATO exercise that made any sense. Right now, it's an organization

00:07:26.360 way past its due date. It should have died with the end of the Cold War. There's no question about

00:07:31.620 that. It's doing nothing except destabilizing Europe, encouraging a war with Russia, encouraging 0.93

00:07:38.420 destabilization of Eastern Europe. It does nothing positive anymore. So do I personally think there's

00:07:45.440 anything for Canada to gain in the long run here or even the short term? No. But I think if Canada

00:07:51.860 pretends to be a loyal member of NATO, and it still does, that it is going to take part in any force

00:07:59.020 that's there. Now, if that force was going to actually engage with US invasion forces, no, we

00:08:07.600 wouldn't be there. And I'll tell you this, NATO wouldn't be there either. This is a huge charade. The

00:08:12.380 whole thing is a huge show. It's an exercise in theater and nothing more. This, whatever, if it's 100,

00:08:19.700 200 or 300 NATO troops show up on Denmark, they will be there doing an exercise, pretending they're

00:08:28.020 really there to defend Greenland from the United States. This is only because NATO, Denmark, Canada,

00:08:37.020 all of the European community can literally not just roll over and let Donald Trump take over

00:08:43.400 Greenland without at least pretending that they object to it. And this is all this amounts to,

00:08:49.100 is pretense. They are pretending to issue a warning to Donald Trump, which of course he's laughing at,

00:08:56.120 because without NATO, without the United States, there is no NATO anyway. And clearly, I believe

00:09:03.840 this is Donald Trump's way of exiting NATO from the back door. He has wanted to do this for quite

00:09:09.200 some time. And I have to say, I'm in full agreement with that. He wants to exit NATO, and he wants to

00:09:14.860 look for an excuse to do so. I think this is the perfect opportunity for him. And that's really what

00:09:19.500 this is all about. And if NATO thinks it's going to stop the United States, of course, it's not.

00:09:24.880 The United States is NATO. NATO is the United States. Without the United States, NATO is virtually

00:09:30.080 nothing, because European countries do not really contribute anything near what the United States

00:09:35.180 has been contributing for the past, what, 70 years, ever since this organization came into existence in

00:09:41.960 1949. So I don't think you're going to see anything here except posturing. And Canada will be a part of

00:09:50.660 that posturing. Well, it seems to be already, you know, part of it. And if the United States does leave

00:09:58.340 NATO, and say NATO manages to lurch forward under some kind of agreement, say, with the remaining members,

00:10:07.560 and there is still this stipulation, is it the Section 5 of NATO? It's, you know, if one of the members is

00:10:18.120 attack on one country is attack on all. Yes. And an attack on Greenland, presumably is an attack on Denmark,

00:10:25.780 which is NATO member. I mean, is there some kind of scenario that you could see is in a conflict with the United States?

00:10:34.680 Anything is possible right now. We're living in a fairy tale world of international politics,

00:10:42.540 geopolitical politics. So anything is possible. But is it likely that NATO is going to engage with

00:10:48.700 the United States over this? Very, very, very unlikely. But I think the possibility exists. As long as we

00:10:54.940 keep pushing the envelope in these areas around the world, something's bound to happen. And this is

00:11:01.520 my chief criticism today of defense and security thinking and policy is that it doesn't seem to

00:11:09.860 think about the consequences of its actions, whether it's the third world war in Europe over Ukraine,

00:11:15.880 or whether it's whether China is going to look at what happened in Venezuela and say, well, why can't

00:11:21.420 we take Taiwan? It's the same thing. We'll just do a regime change operation. Because all of these things

00:11:27.140 have consequences. And I don't think the United States is thinking of the consequences any more

00:11:33.020 than Europe is. But without the United States and NATO, I'll say it again, there is no NATO because

00:11:38.060 the European community already has its own defense force. That's who should be defending Europe, 0.81

00:11:43.720 by the way, not Canadians and Americans. Will Canada remain a member of NATO? Well, there won't be a NATO.

00:11:49.620 But I predict Canada will become increasingly close to its own detriment to the European

00:11:55.700 community, where its interests are not. Our interests are inextricably bound to those of the

00:12:01.500 United States. They are our chief trading partner, our chief military partner, and we are geographically

00:12:07.580 connected to the United States, not to Europe. There is no such thing as the old empire anymore

00:12:14.540 with the United Kingdom, although Mark Carney loves to think we are closer to the UK than we are

00:12:20.900 United States. Absolute nonsense. Europe is in a hellhole of trouble right now. All of the

00:12:29.560 governments on the verge of economic collapse. And so the closer we become aligned to that catastrophe

00:12:35.700 in Europe, the closer we are to becoming part of that catastrophe. Canada must focus its eyes on the

00:12:43.160 United States, which is why I say, if this action by NATO is anything more than theater, Canada should

00:12:51.840 be as far away as possible from it. But in the meantime, I predict Canada will play act along with

00:12:58.320 the rest of NATO. And I don't think there's going to be an altercation. I think Donald Trump will just

00:13:02.580 say Greenland is the next as of today. And NATO, Denmark, or the chief players in NATO will have

00:13:11.560 nothing to say about it. It will be over. It'll be a done deal. That's where we're going in geopolitics

00:13:18.460 as we are today.

00:13:20.240 So that might be what finishes off NATO then, is the takeover of Greenland. Did I hear you correctly?

00:13:26.720 That's exactly what I'm saying. And I think this is planned. I don't think... Donald Trump has been

00:13:32.420 all over the map since becoming president a year ago. A year ago tomorrow, you know, we were celebrating...

00:13:38.240 Oh, I'm celebrating one year anniversary of Trump's inauguration. Although there are times

00:13:43.220 he frustrates the hell out of me. But here we are one year into it. Donald Trump has been

00:13:48.640 all over the map on NATO. Is NATO good? Is NATO bad? Is the United States spending too much money

00:13:53.900 on NATO? Is the United States not spending enough? Clearly, Donald Trump and the MAGA base want the

00:14:00.920 United States out of NATO, out of European entanglements. Focus on the Western Hemisphere.

00:14:06.900 Focus on America first. Rebuild the infrastructure in America, not anywhere else. Stop spending money

00:14:14.240 on Europeans. Let them take care of their own defense. US wants out of NATO. Trump wants out

00:14:21.440 of NATO. This is the perfect opportunity. It's like it was handed to him as a gift.

00:14:27.920 And I can tell you, J.D. Vance and the other people in the administration who despise NATO

00:14:34.580 are saying, Donald, Mr. President, take the opportunity right now. This has been handed

00:14:41.300 to you on a silver platter. Get out of NATO and say, we had no choice. We had to because

00:14:46.680 the organization has ceased to function as it should. David, you've got a terrific YouTube

00:14:51.600 channel. How do people find your content online? You can find me. Creighton's right. My show is

00:14:56.980 Stand on Guard. We're on YouTube. We're on Rumble. We're on all of the platforms. And we will be

00:15:04.640 there every day, seven days a week, 10 o'clock Eastern time. Invite you to see me. Creighton's

00:15:10.640 right news. You can see everything, all of my sub stack, all of my newspaper articles that I write

00:15:15.820 for the media outlets I work for. David Creighton, thank you, sir. Appreciate you having time to come

00:15:21.220 on the show. Well, it's a pleasure, my friend. We'll see you soon.

00:15:25.620 And that is it for this edition of Straight Up. Appreciate you tuning in, my friends. Let's do

00:15:29.700 it again soon, shall we? Bye-bye for now.

Juno News - January 19, 2026

Carney considers SENDING TROOPS to GREENLAND？!

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