President-elect Donald Trump has said the importance of Greenland to national and global security cannot be overstated and former NATO supreme allied commander James Stavridis agreed.
Skeptical Democrats, cynical pundits, and liberal media laughed off Trump’s suggestions of making the country an official U.S. territory.
“It’s not a crazy idea,” Stavridis told Sunday’s “The Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM-N.Y.
“We could do an awful lot in terms of business, investment, box out the Russians, box out the Chinese, and work very closely with Greenland.”
The former NATO commander called the large Arctic island a “strategic goldmine for the United States.”
“It sits at the very top of the North Atlantic; it protects approaches to our own country,” Stavridis told host John Catsimatidis.