Stephen Miller

Greenland is 25% larger than Alaska.

Greenland is the size of one-fourth the continental United States.

With respect to Denmark, Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy and a tiny military.

They cannot defend Greenland.

They cannot control the territory of Greenland.

I thought, wow, what have I gotten myself into?

We are doing this to fulfill a promise to the American people that we will return to the moon, a promise to all of the pioneers, the engineers, the scientists, the astronauts, the researchers from the 1960s, of which they laid the foundation that we are standing upon right now.

We'll do it to inspire my kids, your kids, kids all around the world to want to grow up and contribute to this unbelievable endeavor that we're on right now.

You only have to read their own words and hear their own words and judge their own conduct to understand that this is clearly an insurgency against the federal government.

They are describing the federal government as an occupying force.

Are we living in a new world of strength, power, and force?

Well, that's what President Trump's advisor Stephen Miller says.

The recent U.S.

intervention in Venezuela suggests we may be moving into a new world order.

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