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Jesse Watters didn’t mince words on Jesse Watters Primetime, calling out the sanctimonious parade of European elites who suddenly discovered their outrage when President Trump moved to defend American interests in the Arctic. Watters rightly reminded viewers that when America acts with strength, the same countries who preach restraint rush to lecture us from their comfortable chairs in Brussels.
The flashpoint is our renewed push to secure Greenland — territory the president argues is vital to U.S. national security — and the administration even floated tariffs to sharpen Washington’s negotiating hand. European capitals erupted, painting the move as imperial overreach while threatening retaliatory measures and moral rebukes; the reaction only underscored how little their lecturing is rooted in principle and how much it is rooted in political theater.
Across Denmark and Greenland thousands marched under the slogan “Greenland is not for sale,” and leaders from Paris to London issued stinging rebukes aimed squarely at Washington. Fine—let them protest and posture; the people of Greenland and the Danish government have made their views clear, and no one should mistake European outrage for moral clarity when their own energy policies and open-border experiments have left them weakened.
Watters’ point cuts to the heart of the matter: Europe lectures America about conduct while outsourcing its own security to American muscle and moral support. If Brussels wants to wag a finger at Washington, it should first explain why its elites continually fail to secure their own borders, energy independence, and defense commitments while expecting the United States to stay docile.
This is not some academic spat about decorum — the Arctic is a strategic chessboard with Russia and China circling like sharks, and America must never allow vital terrain to be shaped by timidity or faux-egalitarian scolding. Europe’s high-minded claptrap does nothing to stop adversaries from expanding their influence; only decisive American leadership does, and Watters is right to call out the double standard.
If the White House uses tariffs and hard bargaining to make allies take their own security seriously, so be it; in diplomacy, strength and leverage get results, not lectures. The European tantrum over Greenland proves one thing: when push comes to shove the continent is more interested in virtue signaling than in confronting real threats, and Americans should not apologize for putting our country first.
Hardworking Americans deserve a voice on national security, and patriotic commentators like Watters remind us to distrust the smug lecture circuit in favor of clear-eyed defense of our interests. Let Europe keep their op-eds and parades; Washington should keep doing what it does best — protecting the homeland and standing up for the next generation of Americans.
