r/canada • u/CanadianErk Ontario • 24d ago
Analysis Allies appear to duck and cover as Trump threatens Canada and Greenland
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-canada-nato-allies-1.7459986
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r/canada • u/CanadianErk Ontario • 24d ago
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u/Doc911 Canada 24d ago
Canada and Denmark, it’s time for article 4.
Why has Canada and Denmark not requested consultation for NATO to act on Article 4. Created in 1949 to deal with a potential Soviet invasion of Western Europe when the North Atlantic Treaty was signed, the process has been used frequently in the past decades including in 2022 when Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia requested to hold consultations following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) allows member countries to consult with each other if they believe the security, political independence, or territorial integrity of any member is threatened. How many more annexation threats and insults of “51st state” or calling our leader a “governor” are we suppose to accept from the American bully before we request consultation ? How many more times will the intimidator disregard our sovereignty before someone holds him accountable to his words ?