{"id":46167,"date":"2026-01-16T23:18:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=46167"},"modified":"2026-01-16T23:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:32:20","slug":"nato-official-allegedly-said-europe-would-take-every-us-base-if-trump-takes-greenland-heres-the-real-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/nato-official-allegedly-said-europe-would-take-every-us-base-if-trump-takes-greenland-heres-the-real-story\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO official allegedly said Europe would take every US base if Trump takes Greenland. Here’s the real story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Some news media outlets mistakenly reported that Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn was a “NATO chief.”<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Laerke Christensen<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Published Jan. 16, 2026 (Snopes. com)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Image courtesy of X user @GunterFehlinger<\/strong><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claim:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video shared online in January 2026 authentically showed a NATO official saying that if the U.S. takes Greenland, “We take every single base of the Americans,” and, “If you take Greenland, you have to leave.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social media users correctly attributed the quote to a man called Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn. However, both Fehlinger-Jahn and a NATO spokesperson confirmed that he did not have official relations with the intergovernmental organization, nor did he speak on behalf of the alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January 2026, a video<\/a> (archived<\/a>) spread online purportedly showing a man speaking to camera, saying that if the U.S. takes Greenland, Europe will “take every single base of the Americans,” and, “if [the U.S. takes] Greenland, you have to leave.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The footage circulated as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration repeatedly<\/a> expressed<\/a> its desire to acquire Greenland (archived<\/a>, archived<\/a>), an autonomous territory of Denmark, most of which lies in the Arctic Circle. As of this writing, the Trump administration had not ruled out<\/a> using military force to take the Danish territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One X user who shared the clip called the speaker “Austria’s NATO enlargement committee chairman Fehlinger,” referring to Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn<\/a>, an Austrian economist (archived<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In full, the X user wrote<\/a>: “If the US annexes Greenland we must confiscate all US bases in Europe, says Austria’s NATO enlargement committee chairman Fehlinger. ‘If you take Greenland, you have to leave.'”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If the US annexes Greenland we must confiscate all US bases in Europe, says Austria's NATO enlargement committee chairman Fehlinger.

"If you take Greenland, you have to leave". pic.twitter.com\/LJcwMVf5O2<\/a><\/p>— Mariska den Eelden \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf1 (@eeldenden) January 6, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>