Point of View October 5, 2026 – Hour 2 : Greenland Deal Update, How to Think Like Jesus

Well, I was really interested to see your article because, like I mentioned, we've had a treaty with Greenland for a long time.

And when Trump came out and said this is a much better treaty, I was like, okay, is it really much better, just a little bit better, or what? You have a perspective on this.

Why is Greenland so important to the United States?

So there's a few reasons.

I mean, historically, it's always in some place that's obviously very close to us geographically.

That's not too far off where we've used as fishing grounds going back to the colonial times.

But in modern day, it's super important to us because of its defense potential, especially with respect to the Western Hemisphere and the US homeland.

If you look at a map, that's always helpful to do when you're talking about foreign policy and geopolitics.

is basically sitting at the gateway from the Arctic to the Atlantic Ocean, right down to the eastern seaboard of the US and our major population centers.

Not only would that help control maritime access from places like the Arctic, whether that's Russia coming through the Arctic and down, which was really the big challenge during the Cold War, or countries like China as well today.

And it's also super important because it is the closest and shortest route that ballistic missiles, whether nuclear-tipped or not, coming from either Russia, Iran, or North Korea would hit the eastern seaboard.

They basically take the shortest route possible, which is over the polar ice cap, So that's a very important area for stationing early warning systems as well as potentially missile interceptors.

Now, when President Trump came into office, he started talking about Greenland.

He wanted the U.S. to take over Greenland, perhaps buy Greenland.

I noticed at the time Mike Pence, a former vice president under Donald Trump, and I suspect there are some tensions in between them, but Mike Pence sent out a note saying he thought Greenland was strategic and very important and and that moving to try to address this issue was important.

But Trump, I don't know, I think he kind of stepped on his message some by the way he did this.

What's your thinking about this?

I completely agree about that.

I think he has a good idea here in terms of focusing on hemispheric security, bolstering our presence in Greenland.

But, again, the way he went about doing it I think was counterproductive.

I can understand that Denmark was maybe uninterested in changing the status quo here, same with Greenland.

But, you know, we're close allies with them.

We've had a long-lasting relationship, and clearly we're the more powerful, stronger partner here.

So with diplomacy, we could have gotten a deal like this done faster.

possibly much earlier than now.

Well, I was really interested to see your article because, like I mentioned, we've had a treaty with Greenland for a long time.

And when Trump came out and said this is a much better treaty, I was like, okay, is it really much better, just a little bit better, or what? You have a perspective on this.

Why is Greenland so important to the United States?

So there's a few reasons.

I mean, historically, it's always in some place that's obviously very close to us geographically.

That's not too far off where we've used as fishing grounds going back to the colonial times.

But in modern day, it's super important to us because of its defense potential, especially with respect to the Western Hemisphere and the US homeland.

If you look at a map, that's always helpful to do when you're talking about foreign policy and geopolitics.

is basically sitting at the gateway from the Arctic to the Atlantic Ocean, right down to the eastern seaboard of the US and our major population centers.

Not only would that help control maritime access from places like the Arctic, whether that's Russia coming through the Arctic and down, which was really the big challenge during the Cold War, or countries like China as well today.

And it's also super important because it is the closest and shortest route that ballistic missiles, whether nuclear-tipped or not, coming from either Russia, Iran, or North Korea would hit the eastern seaboard.

They basically take the shortest route possible, which is over the polar ice cap, So that's a very important area for stationing early warning systems as well as potentially missile interceptors.

Now, when President Trump came into office, he started talking about Greenland.

He wanted the U.S. to take over Greenland, perhaps buy Greenland.

I noticed at the time Mike Pence, a former vice president under Donald Trump, and I suspect there are some tensions in between them, but Mike Pence sent out a note saying he thought Greenland was strategic and very important and and that moving to try to address this issue was important.

But Trump, I don't know, I think he kind of stepped on his message some by the way he did this.

What's your thinking about this?

I completely agree about that.

I think he has a good idea here in terms of focusing on hemispheric security, bolstering our presence in Greenland.

But, again, the way he went about doing it I think was counterproductive.

I can understand that Denmark was maybe uninterested in changing the status quo here, same with Greenland.

But, you know, we're close allies with them.

We've had a long-lasting relationship, and clearly we're the more powerful, stronger partner here.

So with diplomacy, we could have gotten a deal like this done faster.

possibly much earlier than now.