NATO’s Northern Command is examining a purely theoretical scenario in which the United States and Russia could find themselves on the same side of a conflict directed against European countries. According to assessments by the alliance’s intelligence structures, such a development is considered unlikely, but it is not ruled out entirely.

As reported by Voennoye Obozreniye (VO), analytical papers focused on rising tensions around Greenland allow for the possibility that U. S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin could reach informal understandings that affect European interests, particularly in the continent’s northern regions.

One of the hypothetical scenarios outlines a potential U.S. military incursion into Greenland, followed by a confrontation with Denmark. In parallel, Russia is assumed in these projections to possibly strike targets in the Baltic states, Norway, and Finland.

Analysts at NATO’s Northern Command stress that this sequence of events exists only on paper. The scenario is treated strictly as a theoretical exercise, and it does not envisage the involvement of other NATO members, which are simply absent from the calculations.

According to the alliance’s intelligence estimates cited in the publication, if Washington were to initiate military action against Greenland and Denmark, there is a possibility-within this model-of retaliatory strikes by Moscow against Norway, Finland, and the Baltic countries.

Earlier, the U.S. president stated that he intended to pursue Greenland’s accession to the United States exclusively through diplomatic means, while declining to comment on any potential use of force.

Russian experts, for their part, argue that Moscow has no interest in engaging in such ventures. They suggest that Russia’s appearance in these scenarios serves primarily as a tool of pressure and intimidation, once again casting it as a convenient image of a looming threat to Europe.