They didn’t react very well either when President Donald Trump said it was a concern of Europe and the United States that Greenland be defended, especially in the age of these new hypersonic missiles coming into the West from the Arctic Circle, from either China or Russia. The first was Rubio made it clear that we are—in the age of DEI—we are a European country in the sense that our legacy was Europe and, particularly, Great Britain. And that brought up one of the fourth things that he said was if Europe would arm itself with a population of 500 million plus—we’re only about 340 million—then that would free up some of our resources to address common European and common American threats, such as China in the Pacific or Iran, or problems in the Middle East.
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Published at: 2026-02-18 23:04:23
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