Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Sunday said a potential United States acquisition of Greenland would be “overwhelmingly in America’s national best interest.
“When it comes to Greenland, I want to commend President Trump, for being single-mindedly focused on America First, on U.S. economic interests, and U.S. national security interests,” Cruz said during an appearance on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo.”
“I believe it is overwhelmingly in America’s national interest to acquire Greenland,” he added.
Since the start of the second Trump administration, White House officials have proposed the acquisition of Greenland through the use of military force or purchase for “national security purposes.”
The president has led the charge to take over the self-autonomous island rich with natural resources, as Danish officials reject the possibility of selling the territory.
“Look, the whole history of America has been a history of acquiring new lands and new territories, whether you go back to Thomas Jefferson making the Louisiana purchase — about half of the United States of America today — or you go back to America purchasing Alaska from Russia. You want to talk about — at the time they called it ‘Seward’s Folly’ — It turned out to, to be an extraordinarily consequential purchase,” Cruz said on Sunday.
“Greenland has massive rare earth minerals and critical minerals. There are enormous economic benefits to America, but like Alaska, it is located on the Arctic which is a major theater for major military conflict with either Russia or China,” he added.
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His comments fall in line with Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who compared the White House’s efforts to buy Greenland to the Louisiana purchase.
However, GOP Rep. Michael McCaul (Texas) said it would pose no additional benefit to the U.S.
“If we want to put more military in there, we can. We don’t have to invade it. If he wants to buy it, that’s fine. But I don’t see a willing seller right now,” McCaul said during a Sunday appearance on ABC’s “This Week.”
He noted that a U.S. invasion of Greenland would strike a “war” with NATO.
