Yorktown Institute Senior Fellow Grant Newsham spoke with Fox News’ Charles Hurt about President Trump’s defense agreement with Denmark and Greenland granting the U.S. military authority over regional security needs.
“This [agreement] is a big deal. This is right up there with Secretary of State Seward getting Alaska [in 1867]. It’s a little different because we haven’t bought the place, but it locks up or brings into the fold really key terrain, key geography up on our northeast. And if you combine it with Alaska, now you have Greenland. And look at how the Chinese have been rolled back in Panama. And look at what President Trump has done with Venezuela. You can see that there’s a plan here for defending our homeland. And this is a— really is a big deal, to put it in simple terms.”
“You have it in writing. You have guarantees that we have real freedom of action militarily, pretty much to do what we need to do, and we don’t have to get permission. We do have to be sensitive to things, but we don’t have to ask and beg for it. And we saw how not having that right paid off with Spain and the British, even with the bases in Diego Garcia. When we tried to go after Iran, they said no. But now we have those guarantees. It’s indefinite. But we also have the right to keep our adversaries out, … that’s Russia and the Chinese in particular. They can’t get in there militarily, and they cannot get in economically.”
Grant Newsham is a Senior Fellow at Yorktown Institute.
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