J.D. Vance

What if every military in the world has a nuclear weapon?

What if a crazy person gets elected in some random outpost of the world that you and I couldn't even find on a map, and now all of a sudden a crazy guy has access to nuclear weapons?

Nuclear proliferation, that is very much a bad thing and something an America First foreign policy should focus on.

That is certainly where the president is most worried about.

No, we definitely have gotten much more than we initially had.

So first of all, again, it's important to define the interest here.

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.