“It’s the United States alone that can protect this giant mass of land, this giant piece of ice, develop it and improve it,” President Trump declared of Greenland to a crowd of globalist weaklings Wednesday at the World Economic Forum.

By nightfall, it was clear America would take up exactly those missions, under what Trump called “the framework of a future deal” worked out through back-channel diplomacy with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who referred to Trump in June as “Daddy,” and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, whose own speech in Davos excoriated his European colleagues for their inefficiency and weakness.

Trump haters at home and abroad insist he backed down out of indecision amid resistance to his expansionist plan. They are wrong.

Throughout his second term, the president has identified Greenland as vital to US national security interests because of its geographic position and abundant mineral wealth.

He’d refused to rule out the use of force to acquire it. He suggested no European country — including Denmark, which rules the world’s largest island as a colony — could stop him.

And he maintains nobody but America can adequately defend Greenland against Russia, which seeks a stronger role in the Arctic, or its ally China, which has absurdly declared itself a “near-Arctic........

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