A.G. Gancarski
The Arctic could be the graveyard of American interests if the United States doesn’t gain control of Greenland.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio notes that the issue is serious and indeed time-sensitive, as “the Arctic Circle and the Arctic region is going to become critical for shipping lanes, for how you get some of this energy that’s going to be produced under President Trump – these energies rely on shipping lanes.
“The Arctic has some of the most valuable shipping lanes in the world. As some of the ice is melting, it’s become more and more navigable. We need to be able to defend that. So if you project what the Chinese have done, it is just a matter of time before – because they are not an Arctic power. They do not have an Arctic presence, so they need to be able to have somewhere that they can stage from,” he told Megyn Kelly this week.
To that end, Rubio predicts a more aggressive Chinese posture.
“And it is completely realistic to believe that the Chinese will eventually – maybe even in the short term – try to do in Greenland what they have done at the Panama Canal and in other places, and that is install facilities that give them access to the Arctic with the cover of a Chinese company but that in reality serve a dual purpose: that in a moment of conflict, they could send naval vessels to that facility and operate from there. And that is completely unacceptable to the national security of the world and to the United – to the security of the world and the national security of the United States.”
Rubio is not alone in these worries.
President Donald Trump expressed similar concerns last month.
“People don’t even know if Denmark has any right to it. They should give it up because we need it for national security. You don’t even need binoculars. You look outside and you have (Chinese) ships all over the place, Russian ships all over the place. We are not letting that happen,” Trump said at a press conference.
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is likewise concerned.
“Denmark can be a great ally, but you can’t treat Greenland, which they have operational control over, as some kind of backwater. It’s in the Western Hemisphere, multiple Presidents have tried to bring it into our sphere,” he told an interviewer last month.
Greenland, along with other Trump initiatives, strikes Waltz as an “America First” move to secure what he calls the “Monroe Doctrine 2.0.” And America’s ally to the north, who Trump has suggested should be an American state, needs to do more, Waltz argued.
Sen. Rick Scott, meanwhile, frames the prospect of acquiring Greenland as “exciting” and “great” for national security.
9 comments
Victoria Olson
February 1, 2025 at 10:22 am
Puré Bullshit conspiracy theory, this is a trump power play trying to own Greenland who will Not even consider the offer, same with Panama Canal & Cañada. This Moron will start WW3. You voted for him hope your happy with this vitriol & chaos. If we didn’t need these countries before why now? He is acting like Putin his favorite Dicktator. Marco Rubio should know better Shame on him supporting this nonsense.
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February 1, 2025 at 10:24 am
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Victoria Olson
February 1, 2025 at 11:02 am
Don’t make me laugh, Floridians & USA HATE DeSatan & his twit wife. They are dead in politics. Stop listening to Fox News truth matters
Ocean Joe
February 1, 2025 at 10:28 am
Will the Chinese let us keep our military bases we’ve had there since before Marco was born? And why has Marco suddenly changed his tune on Tik Tok…I thought the Chinese were going to take all that personal data and destroy us. Meanwhile, as the planet continues to see weather extremes and hottest years on record, climate change is now officially a hoax again. Nothing beats a 78 year old who thinks he’s going to bring back America’s industrial power while fighting against raising the minimum wage.
Suddenly, it’s 1950 again, and DEI caused the recent plane crash.
Victoria Olson
February 1, 2025 at 11:07 am
Thank you Truth Matters not Fox News
MH/Duuuval
February 2, 2025 at 11:18 am
It’s telling that Florida’s minimum wage law was modified by voters and not the captive Legislature. Which helps to explain why MAGA Dee wants to change the process for ballot initiatives.
BTW: Has he made any student loan payments since becoming a millionaire?
TJC
February 1, 2025 at 12:19 pm
Marco Rubio is going to be a very busy man trying to spin sense out of Trump’s declared desire to expand U.S. territory — by military force if necessary. So far the arguments sound just like Putin’s regarding Ukraine: that land represents a security threat, the leadership is not legitimate or they have broken promises to us, we have a History and the God-given Greatness of our Motherland’s Destiny on our side, etc.
Trump has always wanted to be a Putin, now Rubio will have to try to be his Sergey Lavrov. Rubio under any other recent Republican president — Reagan, Bush Sr., Bush Jr., — could have been a strong Secretary of State, a respected asset to the President, but under Trump he is working with a yoke around his neck, and the labor will be unrelenting and unappreciated.
MH/Duuuval
February 2, 2025 at 11:06 am
The US has its base in Thule and had some presence in the area since WWII.
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