Sean Hannity was right to call the spectacle in Europe embarrassing for Western leadership as President Trump spends his first year of a second term taking the fight to the geopolitical frontlines in the Arctic. What the media wants to package as chaos is actually a clear strategy to secure America’s interests where globalists and career diplomats have failed for decades. Europe’s public hand-wringing over Greenland shows who will posture and who will protect American security and American jobs.
The national security case for a stronger American role in Greenland is simple and unglamorous: China and Russia are racing into the Arctic, and Greenland sits astride vital sea lanes and mineral wealth that will shape the 21st century. For once a president is treating the Arctic like the strategic theater it is, pressing for greater U.S. access and stronger defenses rather than pretending everything can be handled by platitudes and wishful thinking. Conservatives should applaud a commander-in-chief who refuses to cede ground to adversaries while others wring their hands.
But the predictable chorus of European scolds insisting “Greenland belongs to its people” misses the point that strategic realities demand hard bargaining and serious deterrence, not moralizing lectures. Leaders in Paris, Berlin and London have publicly pushed back, showing they prefer virtue-signaling to confronting the new geopolitical competition in the North. If Europe wants to protect Greenland’s people, they should stop grandstanding and start investing in real security and infrastructure partnerships that respect both sovereignty and shared defense.
Washington has made it clear that diplomatic, economic and even military options remain on the table to protect American interests, and the administration has not shied away from using tariffs or other tools to force serious negotiation. That toughness makes liberals choke, but it’s the kind of leverage that wins deals and deters rivals; meanwhile the appointment of envoys and high-level diplomacy shows this is not idle saber-rattling. If our leaders won’t wield power to secure our hemisphere and our supply chains, voters should be furious — and grateful when someone finally does.
Patriots should see through the sanctimony in Brussels and in the mainstream press: America must prioritize its people and its security, not kowtow to technocrats when our rivals are circling. This is a moment to stand with a president willing to defend American interests boldly, to modernize our Arctic posture, and to push back against a snobbish European elite more concerned with lecturing than protecting. Hardworking Americans want results, not empty rhetoric — and this administration’s willingness to fight for our strategic advantages is exactly the leadership our country needs.
