Ben Shapiro: Trump “is not trying to grab Greenland because it is necessary for us to up our military presence. We can do that under current treaty obligations.”

BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): And this is a question that, bizarrely enough, seems to be taking the floor, thanks to President Trump’s focus on Greenland. Why Greenland? Well, because Greenland, again, was not really on the bingo card. The reality is that you could make a case that the United States should support Ukraine more strongly. You could make, I think, a significantly weaker case the United States should not support Ukraine as strongly or that the United States should shift pretty much all of the onus for defending Ukraine onto Europe without any sort of real transitional plan. You can make all of those cases.

But when you’re talking about going after Greenland as a sort of pure imperialist measure — because let’s be real about this, the president of the United States is not trying to grab Greenland because it is necessary for us to up our military presence. We can do that under current treaty obligations. Under current defense treaties, we have the ability to build new military bases on Greenland pretty much anytime we want. 

What the president is talking about is grabbing control of Greenland so as to presumably enlarge the territory of the United States. Again, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that as sort of a general rule, but the idea that this is a main priority of the United States and that it has to do with deterring the Russians, that is definitely a strange proposition coming from an administration that has been, at best, somewhat lackluster in its luster in its support of Ukraine, which is currently still fighting an existential war against Russia. Well, the president of the United States continues to go after Greenland. He, at this White House press conference yesterday, suggested that a deal will be made with NATO over Greenland.