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The U.S. has — by far — the world’s largest defense budget, spending $948 billion last year. Its armed forces have 1.3 million personnel — some of them currently stationed in Greenland. Denmark, for its part, last year spent $9.9 billion, has only 17,000 soldiers, and most of its heavy land-warfare equipment has been donated to Ukraine.
They could pull a Three Hundred and Thirty Five Year’s War esque situation where they just declare war and never sign a peace treaty, without ever actually mobilizing their army or trying to fight back.
They could pull NATO Article 5.
The Politico article actually goes into that possibility, and says that it’s unclear whether article 5 actually can be invoked against another NATO member.