Report: GOP Acknowledges ‘Climate Change’ to Justify Greenland Takeover – Trump fmr. National Security Advisor: ‘As the climate gets warmer, the Arctic is going to be a pathway’ that ‘cuts down on usage of Panama Canal’

By Katie Francis  

Trump’s former national security advisor Robert O’Brien referred to Greenland as the “critical battleground” in climate change— but also said the U.S. would extract oil from it.

President-elect Donald Trump has recently revived his dream of expanding the United States through the purchase of Greenland.

While his wish might look unusual on paper, his former national security advisor Robert O’Brien said there were two main reasons for his obsession with the island— and one of them was based on climate change.

Speaking on Sunday Morning Futures, O’Brien envisioned a future in which the U.S. could cut down on using the Panama Canal “as the climate gets warmer.”

“Greenland is a highway from the Arctic all the way to North America, to the United States,” he said to guest host Jason Chaffetz on Fox News.

“It’s strategically very important to the Arctic which is going to be the critical battleground of the future because as the climate gets warmer, the Arctic is going to be a pathway that maybe cuts down on the usage of the Panama Canal.”

Critics seemed shocked by both the boldness of trying to acquire Greenland, and that O’Brien was willing to invoke climate change as a justification for doing so.

“Wait so they accept climate change as real to justify annexing sovereign nations?” one account wrote in response to O’Brien’s speech.