Photo of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Text follows: “We stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark and fully support their unique right to determine Greenland’s future.” With troops landing and the Arctic rapidly militarizing, this was not symbolism. It was posture. Carney followed with an unambiguous reaffirmation of NATO’s Article 5 and made clear that Canada strongly opposes tariffs tied to Greenland. Sovereignty, alliance commitments, and economic coercion were treated as inseparable — because in the world Carney was describing, they are. The power of the moment did not come from bravado. It came from certainty. Carney spoke as someone no longer seeking reassurance from Washington, no longer calibrating language to preserve the illusion of continuity. He spoke as the leader of a country that has accepted the rupture and is now organizing itself accordingly.