Yes?
You read my headline to this piece correct…
Republican US Senator’s seem willing to FIGHT their party Leader from sending the American military to attack and grab the territory of a NATO member ….
Things are beginning fall off the hook?
Is this Miller and Hegseth working Trump up for a possible WWIII between the US and NATO?
Or?
Is this just another outright ‘I want your countires natural resource’s ‘Hold-Up’ in broad daylight?
Read my Note below….
Senate Republicans are vowing to block any effort by President Trump to seize Greenland by military force, as Trump officials on Wednesday refused to back off their demands to control the island during a meeting with top diplomats at the White House.
Republican senators are flummoxed by Trump’s insistence that he’s willing to use military force to seize control of Greenland from Denmark, something they fear will destroy the NATO alliance and give Russia a bigger advantage in its war against Ukraine.
Two Republican senators — Sens. Thom Tillis (N.C.) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) — plan to travel to Copenhagen on Friday to assure the Danish prime minister that there would be strong Republican opposition to any effort by Trump to use military force to seize Greenland.
“I’m going to remind them that we have coequal branches of government and I believe that there [is a] sufficient number of members, whether they speak up or not, that are concerned with this,” Tillis said of Trump’s threats.
“The actual execution of anything that would involve a taking of a sovereign territory that is part of a sovereign nation, I think would be met with pretty substantial opposition in Congress,” he said.
Right now, people are trying to be deferential, but this is just an example of, whoever keeps on telling the president that this idea is achievable should not be in Washington, D.C.,” Tillis said.
A Republican senator who requested anonymity said Trump’s talk of taking over Greenland has generated more opposition from Republicans in Congress because of the dire implications such an aggressive move would have for the future of NATO….
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“I have no understanding how this is an idea to begin with,” the senator added with exasperation, warning that taking Greenland will undermine NATO and put Ukraine at greater risk.
“We absolutely need NATO support Ukraine. Diminishing the capabilities of NATO to do that is a death knell to people in Ukraine,” the senator said.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll released Wednesday found that only 17 percent of Americans would support a U.S. takeover of Greenland. Only 4 percent of respondents said taking Greenland by force would be a good idea.
And 66 percent of respondents said they worried efforts to acquire Greenland would damage NATO and U.S. relations with European allies….
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Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the chair of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, which controls the Pentagon budget, on Wednesday delivered a searing rebuke to Trump’s threat to seize control of Greenland by military force.
Speaking on the Senate floor, McConnell warned it would “incinerate” long-standing NATO alliances and cripple efforts to contain Russian aggression toward Europe….
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McConnell spoke out on the floor after Trump told reporters at the White House on Saturday he would use military force if Denmark doesn’t agree to sell the mineral-rich territory to the United States.
“I would like to make a deal the easy way, but if we don’t do it the easy way, we’re going to do it the hard way,” Trump said.
The president doubled down on his statement Wednesday by posting on Truth Social that anything less than U.S. control of Greenland would be “unacceptable.”
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