Trump himself said as much over the weekend. “We do need Greenland, absolutely,” Trump told the Atlantic on Sunday. “We need it for defense.” If anyone missed the message, administration surrogate Katie Miller—perhaps best known as the wife of White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s domestic and immigration policy— tweeted a photo of Greenland covered in an American flag, with the text, “SOON.”
With U.S. President Donald Trump’s operations in Venezuela appearing, at least in the administration’s eyes, to be a success, the White House appears eager to build upon its foreign-policy momentum. And while there are plenty of opportunities the administration may turn to next, there is one geopolitical project that stands in the immediate offing: annexing Greenland.
With U.S. President Donald Trump’s operations in Venezuela appearing, at least in the administration’s eyes, to be a success, the White House appears eager to build upon its foreign-policy momentum. And while there are plenty of opportunities the administration may turn to next, there is one geopolitical project that stands in the immediate offing: annexing Greenland.
Trump himself said as much over the weekend. “We do need Greenland, absolutely,” Trump told the Atlantic on Sunday. “We need it for defense.” If anyone missed the message, administration surrogate Katie Miller—perhaps best known as the wife of White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s domestic and immigration policy—tweeted a photo of Greenland covered in an American flag,
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