President Trump’s decisive action against the illegitimate Maduro regime in Venezuela has focused world attention on the Western Hemisphere. This is all to the good, as the Trump administration has made clear the priority Washington attaches to its own neighborhood. The recent National Security Strategy emphasized that after three decades of counterproductive wars in the Middle East and South Asia, this administration would prioritize defense of the American homeland and our own hemisphere. It further established the “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine, holding that “extra-hemispheric powers” (think China, Russia, and Iran) would not be permitted to meddle in the hemisphere. Maduro’s connivance with all three contributed to his downfall under this long-overdue recalibration of America’s core interests.
Since the Maduro operation, speculation has abounded as to whether the president will pursue further action under the rubric of “hemispheric defense,” the traditional American strategic concept of fortifying key defensive nodes across the hemisphere. Greenland, which the president has long expressed interest in bringing closer to the United States, represents the most important and strategically necessary step in furthering America’s hemispheric defense umbrella. And while President Trump has greatly advanced the conversation on Greenland’s criticality to U.S. national security, he is not the first commander in chief to actively seek to acquire Greenland: Presidents from Andrew Johnson to Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt to Dwight Eisenhower have all pursued the acquisition of the world’s largest island.
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