'Trump is damaging Nato': ex-commander speaks out on Greenland threats

With tariffs aimed at Europe over Greenland, Nato teetering on
the brink and Donald Trump flexing military muscle like never
before, this is geopolitics as a personal power play.


Venetia and Roland are joined by the Alliance’s former Supreme
Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) Philip Breedlove who lays bare
the strategic and moral fallout of Mr Trump’s actions and why he
would refuse the order to invade Greenland if it came. The
retired four star US Air Force general also reflects on the
impact of America’s new National Security Strategy and the state
of the Pentagon’s fleet of fighter jets. 


Plus, US correspondent Connor Stringer on what it’s been like
having a front row seat to the president’s second-term storm,
sharing what it is really like to cover an administration that is
rewriting the international security architecture.


Read David Blair on why this is a gift to
Putin: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/19/trump-handed-putin-prize-soviet-union-40-years/


Read Tom Sharpe on why the US doesn’t need Greenland
militarily: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/18/us-never-needed-greenland-for-military-reasons/


Producer: Peter Shevlin


Executive Producer: Louisa Wells


Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look
forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day's biggest
stories, every morning. telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor


Contact us with feedback or ideas:


battlelines@telegraph.co.uk 


@venetiarainey


@RolandOliphant


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.