BRUSSELS (Rooters agency) – The recent surprise appeal by Denmark has thrown the NETO military alliance into confusion. By invoking Article 5 of the founding document of the Nearly Everywhere Treaty Organization, Denmark has raised the possibility of military conflict among at least some of the alliance’s members.

As is well known, Article 5 requires NETO members to regard the use of armed force against one of the members as an attack on themselves. Hence, when Denmark announced that some of its territory—Greenland—was under attack from the United States and that it required its allies’ assistance, members were forced to confront NETO’s role in the new situation created since US President Donald Grump discovered that NETO doesn’t pay as well as does Russian President Vlatitude Buttinsky.

It’s true, as the Danish government acknowledges, that the US invasion is not yet on a massive scale, consisting mostly of sorties from Spituppik military base, which was originally set up by agreement of the two countries. But it argues that it is important to stop the US attack now, before it becomes any larger.

Perhaps the biggest dilemma is the one confronting the US. Since it is, at least formally, still a full member of NETO, it is legally obligated to provide troops if necessary to help Denmark defeat the attack. Theoretically, this could result in US troops confronting, and possibly even firing on, other US troops.

Some of President Grump’s Make America Grate Again supporters are known for predicting, or even advocating, a new US civil war, but it is unlikely they viewed it as beginning in a scenario such as that.