Greenland

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: WELKER: ‘Let me ask you broadly speaking about the tariff portion of this. The president, as you well know, has justified his authority to impose previous tariffs without going to Congress by declaring national emergencies. It’s an issue before the Supreme Court right now, we are all awaiting the high court’s decision. What is the national emergency that justifies these new slate of tariffs?” BESSENT: “The national emergency is avoiding a national emergency. It is a strategic decision by the president. This is a geopolitical decision, and he is able to use the economic might of the U.S. to avoid a hot war. So why wouldn’t – why wouldn’t we do that? You know, same thing, what if we had a national emergency coming with these gigantic trade balances that we have had with the rest of the world? I’ve been in financial markets for 30, 45 years. Much better to be strategic, avoid the emergency.” WELKER: “You’re saying it’s a national emergency, but you’re also saying it’s a threat that’s years away. How can both be true, Mr. Secretary?” BESSENT: “Because you are avoiding creating the emergency, kristen. What if during the great financial crisis someone had raised their hand in 2005-2006 and said stop with subprime mortgages? But no one did. President Trump is raising his hand and that is preventing the emergency.” WELKER: “Do you think the Supreme Court will agree with that Rationale, Mr. Secretary?” BESSENT: “I believe that it is very unlikely that the Supreme Court will overrule a president’s signature economic policy. They do not overrule ObamaCare. I believe that the Supreme Court does not want to create chaos. We have set – as you’ve said earlier – we have set these trade dealings and it is very good for the United States. We are balancing our trade deficit. You look, Europe is being overrun with Chinese goods. There is now an emergency in Europe. There’s going to be an economic emergency, the Europeans will follow us. So President Trump is preempting this. If we go back to emergencies, he put a fentanyl tariff Mexico, Canada, China. Guess what’s happened to fentanyl deaths? If that’s and not an emergency I don’t know what is. October 8th when the Chinese threatened to put rare earth export controls on the entire world President Trump threatened a 100% tariff and the Chinese came to the table and we negotiated on behalf of the whole world, kristen.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: WELKER: “I want to delve into everything that you’ve said but I just want to ask you big picture. Is this a negotiating tactic, Mr. Secretary, or is President Trump serious about annexing Greenland?” BESSENT: “President Trump strongly believes that we cannot outsource our security because, kristen, let me tell you what will happen. And it might not be next year. Might not be in five years, but down the road this fight for the arctic is real. We would keep our NATO – our NATO guarantees, and if there were an attack on Greenland from Russia, from some other – other area, we would get dragged in. So better now, peace through strength, make it part of the United States, and there will not be a conflict because the United States right now we are the hottest country in the world. We are the strongest country in the world. Europeans project weakness, U.S. Projects strength.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: WELKER: “Joining me now is Treasury secretary Scott Bessent. Secretary bess sanity, welcome back to “Meet the Press.”” BESSENT: “Good morning, kristen, good to be with you.” WELKER: “Great to have you here. Thank you for being here in-person. Let’s start right there. President Trump threatening to impose steep tariffs against some of America’s closest European and NATO allies. The leaders of Denmark and Greenland say bluntly, Greenland is not for sale. What makes President Trump think it is?” BESSENT: “Kristen, if we look for years – for over a century, American presidents have wanted to acquire Greenland and what we can see is that Greenland is the ee – essential to the U.S. National security, we’re building the golden dome, the missile system. And, look, President Trump is looking – is being strategic. He is looking beyond this year, he’s looking beyond next year to what could happen for a battle in the arctic. We are not going to outsource our national security. We are not going to outsource our hemispheric security to other countries. In Trump 1.0 President Trump told the Europeans do not – do not build nord stream 2, do not rely on Russian oil. Guess what, kristen, guess what is funding Russia’s efforts against Ukraine? European purchases of Russian oil. So America has to be in control here.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: HOST: “As you said that some experts are expecting a bit of a backpedal from the United States, but is there anything that, in your view, could actually satisfy both President Trump and Denmark at the same time now, or are their core interests just incompatible” RIZZO: “So I think those both both are possible. I think their core interests are right now incompatible. But I think what we should really watch closely is the Republican response to this. In the United States, this is not popular in the U.S. it‘s also not popular in Greenland or in Denmark, but it‘s also increasingly not popular amongst Republicans, specifically senator Mitch McConnell recently said that acquiring Greenland, especially by force, would be as disastrous for Donald Trump as the withdrawal. The chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Afghanistan was for Biden and his presidency. So that‘s kind of, I think, a surprising thing to hear Mitch McConnell say. He‘s always been pretty much in line with President Trump. So there‘s a lot of daylight between the two sides now. But I do think that there could be a way that both sides could come to the table. Unfortunately, as I mentioned before, Donald Trump has really made this a core tenet of his presidency. And I don‘t know that he would be happy with anything less than having the U.S. fully acquire the island. So I think we‘re in”

The German soldiers leave Greenland immediately after Trump threatens with tariffs. https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/2012940980735950851?s=20

Former head of MI6, Sir Alex Younger, makes a great point about European military reliance on America "infantilising" us. I'd go further - under America's protection from external threat, we've started self-harming.

Scott Bessent HITS BACK at NBC’s Kristen Welker for claiming Trump's EU tariff threat will "undercut our word" "It does NOT! It ENHANCES U.S. security. We have already seen Europe can't push back against Russia... why not be strategic!?" https://x.com/TVNewsNow/status/2012898478473482684?s=20

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: WITT: “Let’s bring in former U.S. Ambassador to Russia and now international affairs analyst, our friend Michael McFaul. So, ambassador, we have heard denials from danish and greenlandic officials about Russian and Chinese assets on or around Greenland. What was the situation when you were U.S. ambassador to Russia? Does Russia have assets on the island? Has Russia ever recently seriously considered taking over Greenland? Does President Trump have reason to say, as he has repeatedly, the U.S. needs Greenland for national security?” McFaul: “No, no, no, no, this is the dumbest idea ever that I can ever remember, both in working on foreign policy or as a student of foreign policy. And I have studied American foreign policy since the 18th century. This makes no sense whatsoever. If there were threats, there are no assets there, first of all. But, you know, look at the map you just showed and you look at the water and you think, well, where might Russian subs come from? Where might Russian ships come from? Of course, up there. But we don’t need to annex Greenland to protect us against those. And by the way, I’m glad you have this map. Look at some of the other countries that are up there. They’re all NATO allies. So if we annex Greenland and blow up NATO, we lose access to all those other bases, all those. You might not be surprised. We might have intelligence assets and all those other countries up there that are members of the NATO alliance. It just makes no military sense whatsoever. Second, I dealt with Greenland, by the way, when I worked at the national Security Council, responsible for Russia. We have an agreement with the kingdom of Denmark goes back to 1951. We can put as many soldiers and bases there as we want. If the goal is really national security, but the goal is not national security. The goal is a vanity project for President Trump. He wants Greenland to become Trump land, so that he will be remembered in history as the guy that expanded the United States of America. And we just have to stop this idiotic idea that negative consequences of blowing up NATO, the most enduring, powerful alliance in the history of the world, to put a few bases in Greenland has to. It is, in my view, it’s the worst foreign policy idea that I can ever remember in American history.”

DENMARK FORCEFULLY STERILIZED THE LOCALS TO REDUCE THEIR NUMBERS! “I will never have children,” Petersen said with tears of anger and sorrow welling in her eyes. “That choice was taken from me.” Suffering from severe uterine problems, a medical doctor discovered an IUD birth control device in her body that she didn’t know she had. Danish doctors had implanted it when she was just 13 as part of a population control program for thousands of native Greenlandic girls and women.