J.D. Vance

Greenland is very important to America's national security.

Our entire missile defense system, by the way, would be inoperable if the Russians or the Chinese intervened.

controlled Greenland.

So God forbid, I don't think it's going to happen, to be clear, but God forbid some foreign country launches a missile, an ICBM at the United States of America, we couldn't defend ourselves if a foreign country controlled Greenland.

And by the way, the Chinese and the Russians have both expressed an interest in controlling Greenland.

Okay, so what is the defensive mechanism for Greenland?

You have a population of about 60,000 people on a massive territory, right?

That's like the size of my hometown, and I didn't grow up in a

Denmark, which has been one of the better NATO allies, to be clear, but has still radically underinvested in security compared to the Russians and the Chinese.

So the president has said very simply, we are on the hook for this island.

It's one of those unwritten rules that everybody knows that if the Chinese or the Russians affected one of our critical missile defense systems, we would necessarily defend that.

But we're not getting anything for it.

This is an unfair situation.

The United States has no ownership over this island, and we don't get any of the benefit.

So let's actually rewrite the rules here a little bit and say if the United States is going to protect the entire world's missile defense system, primarily our own, but other people benefit from it, we should get some benefit from the bargain.

Now, it's interesting because I actually was sitting in this room.

One of the rare times I've used this ceremonial office for official business, me and Marco and a lot of the leaders from Denmark and Greenland had a great conversation.

Maybe.

I did not follow up.

I did not see what they did afterwards.