Vice President JD Vance’s March 28 visit Greenland laid bare the hubris and hypocrisy at the core of the Trump administration’s belligerent, neo-imperialist approach to “getting” Greenland. Speaking the day after the visit, President Trump reasserted that he would not take the use of military force off the table to “get” Greenland, insisting: “We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100 percent.”

What has been missing from the administration’s astonishing claims to the territory of one of America’s closest NATO allies is any sincere effort to explain why an American land-grab of Greenlandic territory is necessary for U.S. national security — especially given that Greenland is already protected by NATO’s Article V security guarantee. President Trump simply insists ad nauseum that “we need it,” because Greenland is “a very, very large piece of land. And very, very important for military security.”

In the face of these vague justifications for an action that would effectively destroy the NATO alliance and the transatlantic security framework that has protected the United States and Europe for 75 years, Vance’s visit to Pituffik Space Base offered reporters an opportunity to press Vance and national security advisor Michael Waltz on the administration’s extraordinary claim that U.S. security can only be ensured by taking over the territory........

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