The Hon. Jamie Baker, Professor and Director of the Syracuse University Institute for Security Policy and Law, was interviewed on NPR’s On Point podcast about President Trump’s statements on Greenland and the possible impact on NATO. Baker’s interview begins at 21:39 of the podcast.
In response to the question, what would the US lose if there were no NATO, Baker replied, “The U.S. would lose the 21st Century. It would lose the cooperation, the assistance, bases, and intelligence support throughout the NATO countries and bases in Norway and intelligence capacity in Norway that helps secure the arctic and secure the sea routes in the arctic. You would risk the Article 5 border in the Baltics. America thought it could avoid European entanglements and war in Europe before. How did that work out with the First World War and the Second World War? We risk greater war if we pull out of NATO.”