“It's clearly in the United States' interest that we gain sovereignty over Greenland,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) said in an interview. Breitbart News Daily.
“President Trump and I discussed this privately during his first term,” Cotton said of the Greenland purchase. “Then it was discovered that he was thinking about this and talking about it within the administration and with members of the Senate, and as you point out, he was ridiculed and laughed at for how he looked in 2015.”
“And he encouraged me to write a defense against it. And of all the places I tried to publish that defense, it was new york times. This allows the listener to return to its original location. new york times “Please see our summer 2019 op-ed page for my op-ed that discusses in great detail why the United States clearly should buy Greenland,” he said in defense of the idea. here.
Cotton noted that Trump is not the first American president to express interest in Greenland.
“Harry Truman tried to buy Greenland for the same reason. We are now so grateful that Abraham Lincoln and William Seward acquired Alaska from Russia, then known as Seward's Folly. And with all the oil and gas out there, and providing critical strategic terrain for early warning systems for Russian and Chinese missiles, no one thinks that's stupid anymore. No – just like Greenland does,” Cotton said.
“The fact that if Russia were to gain a foothold in North America, it would put us at greater risk, just as China is trying to gain a foothold in Greenland,” he said.
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“For all of these reasons, it's clearly in America's interest that we gain sovereignty over Greenland. I know the left is uncomfortable with that sort of thing, but it's a colonial I would like to point out that Woodrow Wilson, the patron saint of modern progress, also purchased the territory from Denmark, which we now call the Virgin Islands.'' “So there's a long precedent for that,” he said.
Cotton also added: “It would be better for the people of Greenland.”
“For a relatively small country like Denmark, supporting them is a big strain on their budgets and resources, so they don't get the services they deserve. They don't get the services that Alaskans receive. “We don't have it, but it would be better for them to have the United States and our resources and our $28 trillion economy backing them up,” he added.
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