Tucker Carlson says the US taking Greenland would end NATO, calls it a “huge victory for the world and for the United States”
Carlson: “NATO was going out anyway. Is it really bad that NATO's going away?”
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From the January 14, 2026, edition of The Tucker Carlson Show, posted on YouTube
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): And Greenland, what are the downsides of taking Greenland? Well, you establish a precedent that if I have the power, I get to take what I want. That's always been enforced. That's human nature. We've constructed a kind of elaborate series of rules, theoretical rules designed to pretend that's not true and to mitigate it to some extent over the last eighty years.
But really, that's always been true and always will be true. But that's a pretty tough game once you write the rules, that if someone can take something because they want it, it's okay. You have to live with them. NATO will effectively be done. How can you have a defensive alliance when one member acts against another?
Probably can't. NATO was going out anyway. Is it really bad that NATO's going away? No. It's a huge victory for the world and for the United States, but it's gonna be tough for its many employees and for the entire infrastructure of foreign policy thinkers such as they are in Washington and Brussels and throughout Europe. They're going to have to face the reality that this is not a real thing anymore.
If NATO was real, then the US wouldn't have taken Greenland. So there's that, apparently a downside.