The liberal elite is in a panic—this time over President Trump’s push to secure Greenland. Headlines warn of NATO’s collapse, the end of the “rules-based international order,” and an America behaving like a rogue hegemon indistinguishable from China or Russia. The hysteria is familiar. So is the mistake beneath it.

The establishment is proving, once again, how little it understands MAGA foreign policy.

Rather than engage seriously with the strategic realities of the Arctic, critics have reduced President Trump’s initiative to a caricature of neo-imperialist ambition. At Davos, French President Emmanuel Macron warned against America’s “new colonial approach.” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stated that “middle powers must act together–because if you are not at the table, you are on the menu.” These Western leaders mistake moral outrage for moral authority—less interested in whether Greenland is safer under Danish stewardship or NATO’s defense than in signaling disapproval to domestic audiences.

But virtue-signaling is not a security strategy. The Arctic is no longer a distant frontier at the edge of the map. Melting ice is opening new shipping lanes, exposing undersea cables and energy infrastructure, and transforming the region into a central arena of great-power competition. Russia has aggressively militarized its Arctic coast, expanding airfields, radar installations, and missile systems. China now openly describes itself as a “near-Arctic power,”........

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