Sarah McBride

And so either the president doesn't understand this or he is willfully and intentionally trying to destroy not only NATO as an institution, but quite literally the greatest force for peace and stability, not just in Europe, but in the world that we've really ever known.

I think people have to understand that we are at an inflection point right here.

I think they know that domestically.

But the world international rules based order is coming collapsing in around us.

And, you know, we're celebrating 250 years of the United States.

And as we celebrate 250 years of the United States, I've been thinking a lot about another sort of time frame.

And that is 80 years, because it does seem like this country every 80 years faces an inflection point.

We have the Revolutionary War 80 years later.

We have the Civil War 80 years later.

We have the Great Depression and World War II.

And now we are 80 years from that last inflection point.

And I think it's as the last living memories of that previous inflection point and the lessons learned in that previous inflection point die out, which is what's happening with the greatest generation right now.

We are faced with either learning the lessons of history by listening to the voices of the past or forced to repeat that history.

And I fear that Greenland is quite literally the beginning of a change in the world order that could result in widespread conflict that we've not seen in 80 years.

It absolutely is.

What is profound here, though, is that he is acting like the Danes or NATO, for that matter, has done absolutely nothing for us.

And frankly, the grievance that the Danes would rightfully feel in this moment after sacrificing more people per capita after 9-11 in defense of the United States in Afghanistan than the United States did.

I mean, what an incredible slap in the face by the United States after that kind of sacrifice.

And that sacrifice itself reinforces to some of the President Trump's social yesterday that NATO would never be there for the United States.

And it never has been.