Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, told Newsmax on Friday that the United States needs access to Greenland to protect American interests.
Hanson told Newsmax’s “Newsline” that the visit to Greenland by Vice President J.D. Vance underscores the need for an increased U.S. presence at the North Atlantic island nation. It’s something President Donald Trump has talked about many times.”So there has to be some kind of compromise where we have access to protect the West from its enemies. But I don’t think anybody wants to take it over and colonize it as they’ve accused us of.”
Hanson said it’s only logical for the U.S. to have a larger footprint around Greenland, a territory of Denmark. “It’s a North American territory. So China and Russia are active in its airspace and its maritime zones and we need somebody to keep them out and keep it Western. And he (Trump) says that requires a greater presence than we have.”
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