When I read that Secretary of State Rubio told lawmakers President Trump wants to buy Greenland, I felt a chill. Not because the idea is absurd—though it is—but because of what it reveals: a worldview where sovereign nations are treated like real estate, and power justifies theft.
Threatening to seize or purchase another country for its wealth is not strength. It is barbarism dressed up as strategy. It tramples international law, mocks self-determination, and drags the United States backward into an age of imperial plunder we once claimed to reject.
This reckless posture does not stop at Greenland. It undermines Ukraine’s survival by signaling that borders are negotiable and conquest is rewarded. It tells Putin, and every would-be aggressor, that might makes right. And it threatens NATO itself, an alliance built on mutual defense, not mutual extortion.
Allies do not fear invasion from their friends. Democracies do not auction off other peoples’ homelands. If America abandons these principles, we lose far more than credibility—we lose the moral foundation that has kept alliances intact and wars contained.
The world is watching. So are our allies. And so are our enemies.
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