Stephen Miller Asserts U.S. Has Right to Take Greenland
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sheetsadam1 — 2 months ago(January 06, 2026 05:40 AM)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/politics/stephen-miller-greenland-venezuela.html
Stephen Miller, a top aide to President Trump, asserted on Monday that Greenland rightfully belonged to the United States and that the Trump administration could seize the semiautonomous Danish territory if it wanted.
“Nobody’s going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland,” Mr. Miller told Jake Tapper, the CNN host, after being asked repeatedly whether he would rule out using military force.
The remarks were part of a vocal push by Mr. Miller, long a powerful behind-the-scenes player in Trump administration policy, to justify American imperialism and a vision for a new world order in which the United States could freely overthrow national governments and take foreign territory and resources so long as it was in the national interest.
“We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he said. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”
Mr. Miller made his comments after his wife posted an image on social media over the weekend suggesting that the United States would soon take control of Greenland, and as Mr. Trump has renewed his own push for the island. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark urged Mr. Trump on Sunday to “stop the threats” to annex Greenland, in effect attacking a NATO ally.
The United States’ taking Greenland by force would rip apart the central agreement that underpins the NATO military alliance, of which Denmark and the United States are both founding members. Under that treaty, an attack on any member is treated as an attack on all members. Mr. Trump has previously said he would not rule out using the military to take Greenland.
Mr. Miller also echoed Mr. Trump’s intent to rule Venezuela and exploit its vast oil reserves after a U.S. raid seized President Nicolás Maduro and his wife from Caracas. Even some of America’s staunchest allies have criticized the raid, and the U.N. secretary general, António Guterres, said the raid had violated the U.N. charter.
“The United States of America is running Venezuela,” Mr. Miller said, dismissing international treaties enshrining a nation’s right to independence and sovereignty as “international niceties.” (What exactly is meant by “running” Venezuela is a matter of some dispute; Secretary of State Marco Rubio has shied away from the descriptor — even as Trump insists that the United States is very much “in charge” of Venezuela — and Speaker Mike Johnson, who has vigorously defended the military operation, has maintained that the United States is not engaged in military hostilities or an occupation.)
Mr. Miller’s language echoed a dark history of the United States’ governing weaker, smaller states in Latin America by flexing its military might. Mr. Miller asserted that a U.S. military blockade of the South American country of 28 million people would give the United States control of Venezuela.
“We set the terms and conditions,” Mr. Miller said. “We have a complete embargo on all of their oil and their ability to do commerce. So for them to do commerce, they need our permission. For them to be able to run an economy, they need our permission. So the United States is in charge. The United States is running the country.”
Senator Bernie Sanders, independent of Vermont, denounced Mr. Miller’s remarks soon after, saying on CNN that “Mr. Miller gave a very good definition of imperialism.”
“Trump has made it clear he wants to take Venezuela’s oil,” he added. “Last I heard, this is what imperialism is all about. And I suspect that people all over the world are saying, ‘Wow, we’re going back to where we were 100 years ago, or 50 years ago, where the big, powerful countries were exploiting poorer countries for their natural resources.’”
The US version of the Nuremberg trials can't come soon enough.
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/.ㅤ — 2 months ago(January 06, 2026 06:37 AM)
There's not a single country that could last 5 seconds against the full force of the United States military, least of all Europe. NATO is a joke. NATO only has power because the United States runs it. Europe has Russia invading and who are the ones stopping it? It's ain't Europe. It's us. We're the ones spending our money to defend their useless asses and we're getting jack **** in return. Honestly we should take the whole ****ty continent for ourselves since we're the ones doing all the hard work to keep it together. They can't even defend themselves. "We can't take Greenland, it belongs to Denmark!" Fuck Denmark. Denmark wouldn't exist without us protecting it. It's a fake country. Greenland is already ours.
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/.ㅤ — 2 months ago(January 06, 2026 06:52 AM)
You have a very simplistic understanding of our military history. We could have nuked every one of those countries into oblivion if we wanted to, but our problem is we're just too damn nice. No more Mr. Nice Guy.
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/.ㅤ — 2 months ago(January 06, 2026 07:07 AM)
Which they would never do, ever. It would be complete suicide. They are certainly not going to do it over Greenland, which isn't even their territory. The fact is there's simply nothing that can be done to stop the United States. If we want Greenland, we will get Greenland.
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Pandora — 2 months ago(January 06, 2026 07:40 AM)
They are certainly not going to do it over Greenland, which isn't even their territory.
Wrong.
Greenland is one of the Overseas Countries and Territories of the European Union and is part of the Council of Europe. -
.//.. — 2 months ago(January 07, 2026 10:22 PM)
If NATO collapses over Trump’s Greenland push, Europe would force U.S. troops out of Europe. They kick them out of Ramstein, out of Naples… They won't have a single ship left in the Mediterranean.
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Pandora — 2 months ago(January 06, 2026 07:37 AM)
There's not a single country that could last 5 seconds against the full force of the United States military
So you really think the US would full on invade and take an EU country?? Really, if it came to that then the US is the one starting WW3
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Steve Lake — 2 months ago(January 06, 2026 03:03 PM)
We shouldnt invade any European Countries.
Here is what we shpuld do though. Tell the Europeans to go **** themselves and 100% pull put out of Nato.
Let the EU defend itself from Russia and China and from Iran and its intercontinental ballistic Missiles.
And here is the biggest kicker, Russia or China would never even have to attack or invade not a single Country in Europe.
Why you may ask my woefully informed frenemy.
Because every Nation in Europe has already committed National suicide .
By importing Millions and Millions and Millions of Muslims.
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