President Donald Trump has indicated he thinks that America should own Greenland, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio has suggested that we might buy it from Denmark, with the administration noting that it is a strategic island full of valuable resources and the Europeans seem too weak and feckless to properly control and utilize it.
As could be expected, that plan of American expansion has thrown longtime RINO Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) into an utter hissy fit, with the senator appearing on “CBS Mornings” on Wednesday, January 7, to insist that he would do everything possible to try and block President Trump from taking Greenland.
Kicking off the conversation, co-host Vladimir Duthiers asked the senator, “Senator, the president of the United States has said that the United States needs to acquire Greenland for national security reasons. The president’s press secretary says that the president and his team are discussing a range of options.”
Continuing, Duthiers asked, “And I’m quoting her here, Karoline Leavitt to CBS News: ‘Utilizing the U.S. military is always an option at the commander in chief’s disposal.’ That is a quote from Karoline Leavitt. My question to you, sir, is do you imagine a scenario where young American soldiers, airmen, Guardsmen, Marines are actually training a weapon on a NATO ally of the United States?”
Responding, Sen. Paul angrily insisted that such has never happened before and must be treated as absolutely horrific, saying, “We’ve never been in a position, to my recollection, or to my knowledge of something like that.”
Then, after some more commentary about whether Greenland will be bought or taken over, the senator went on to insist that he would do everything possible to try and stop it, saying, “I will do everything to stop any kind of military takeover of Greenland. What I can tell you, though, is if you want to purchase Greenland, the best way would be to try to have goodwill with the people.”
Continuing by muttering his way through the legalities, the snator insisted, “So first, it would probably require a vote of the people to be independent of Denmark, which I think the people of Greenland are inclined to do. And then it would have to be some sort of offer of something that makes it better to be part of the United States.”
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Comparing this to the Louisiana Purchase, one that was accomplished in part because of the threat of force and without a vote, and so undid his earlier argument, Sen. Paul then insisted, “We have acquired territory. I mean, half the United States came to us through the Louisiana Purchase. Alaska came to us through a purchase.”
Concluding, and ignoring how the actual history of the Louisiana Purchase belied his point, the senator said, “But you didn’t get to those purchases, like any deal or diplomacy, by insulting your opponent, you get there by actually, trying to please and get your opponent to agree to this because it would have to be done voluntarily. So I see no scenario in which militarily I or really for that matter, any of my colleagues in the Senate would support a military takeover of Greenland.”
Watch him here: