January 6, 2026
RED FM News Desk
Canada’s former ambassador to the United Nations says recent U.S. military action in Venezuela should be a wake-up call for Canada and Greenland to take threats to their sovereignty seriously.
Speaking with CTV’s Your Morning on Tuesday, Bob Rae said U.S. President Donald Trump has created uncertainty about which country could be targeted next.
“The president has created a whole new guessing game of who’s next,” Rae said. “An attack on Greenland would be an attack on NATO, it would be an attack on a friendly state, Denmark, and frankly it’s astonishing that we have a president who is not just speculating, but now saying he’s planning on doing it.”
Rae’s comments follow a Jan. 3 U.S. military operation in which Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were abducted. Trump has repeatedly argued that taking control of Greenland, an autonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark, is necessary for U.S. national security. He has also openly suggested Canada could become the 51st U.S. state.
“I don’t think they’re musings,” Rae said of Trump’s comments about Canada. “I think he’s got a view about who we are and what we’re all about — that he can run the country better than us.”
Rae said Canadians may react with disbelief, but warned that Trump’s words and actions should be taken seriously.
“We all just sort of shake our heads with a sense of amazement, but we have to go beyond that amazement and recognize that this guy is for real — and the real is not pretty or legal,” he said.
According to Rae, U.S. actions in Venezuela and rhetoric toward Greenland and Canada align with a new U.S. National Security Strategy that aims to “restore American preeminence in the Western Hemisphere.”
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