A growing number of Republican Senators are speaking out against the idea of US military action to seize Greenland

We are watching in real-time an attempt by some in the Trump Administration to break down what seemed like an unshakeable taboo: Democratic nations would not use force to seize territory from each other. It’s even more dramatic than that, given the fact that a violent US seizure of Greenland would involve the US attacking a NATO ally, almost certainly leading to the end of NATO as we know it.