“ White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller gave a new defense for Donald Trump’s Greenland power grab.
Miller presented a new law to defend the U.S.’ aggressive campaign to acquire Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark, during an appearance on Hannity on Friday night.
He claimed that, under “the law,” nations were not entitled to their territory if they were unable to defend it. The Trump aide belittled the Danish government, saying its “tiny” military was inadequately protecting Greenland.
“With respect to Denmark, Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy, and a tiny military,” Miller told host Sean Hannity. “They cannot defend Greenland. They cannot control the territory of Greenland. Under every understanding of law that has existed about territorial control for 500 years, to control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory, improve territory, inhabit a territory. Denmark has failed on every single one of these tests.”
Annexation and territorial conquest are illegal under international law, but Trump has not ruled out military action. The United Nations Charter—which the United States is a member of—Article 2, Section 4, specifically addresses the matter of threat or use of force against “the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.”
Trump has stated that the U.S. will take Greenland “one way or another.” „
TheParadoxigm on
>He claimed that, under “the law,” nations were not entitled to their territory if they were unable to defend it.
Literally medieval shit.
YourShowerCompanion on
Guy looks like Dracula’s shaved testicle with a human face.
fudgeplank on
Greenland is defended by Article 5 of the NATO Treaty. The USA is a member of this treaty.
Article 5
The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security .
DoNotBeSmugandDumb on
This is literally the same logic the Roman Empire, the British Empire, the Spanish Conquistadors and the Nazis used. He is defending Trump by using the same rhetoric that has led to war and genocides in the past.
Our government is gaslighting all of us, and laughing all the way to the bank. It’s no secret the US has had almost unlimited military access to Greenland since Truman was president.
shadowriku459 on
This lizardman needs to go away.
InnerFish227 on
The dweeb read Machiavelli and thinks it is a great political strategy ignoring Voltaire, the outcome Napoleonic wars and the Congress of Vienna.
gunslinger_006 on
Quoting Miller, emphasis mine:
> to control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory, *improve territory*, inhabit a territory. Denmark has failed on every single one of these tests.”
The “law” he is referencing was used by the original settlers of the what became the USA to justify the genocide of indigenous peoples.
Zinn talks about it in the first chapter of A Peoples History of the United States.
Basically the notion was that you only had legal right to land if you developed or improved it somehow. Since the indigenous peoples of this area did not erect buildings or terraform the land in any way, they “had no legal standing”.
Its a tale as old as time used by imperialists to take land from other societies.
I quote:
>When the pilgrims came to New England they too were coming not to vacant land but to territory inhabited by tribes of Indians. The governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop, created the excuse to take Indian land by declaring the area legally a ‘vacuum’. The Indians, he said, had not “subdued” the land and therefore had only a “natural” right to it, but not a “civil” right. A “natural” right did not have legal standing.
-Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States.
This book should be mandatory reading for every American.
BakersThree on
This is definitely from the minds of the producers of „small government“.
grasshopper239 on
He lives on a military base because he can’t defend his property.
InnerFish227 on
Using his logic, he doesn’t deserve his marriage because he couldn’t defend getting cucked by Elon.
Nor does he deserve his house since can’t defend it and had to run to a military base to live.
I swear he sleeps upside down by his toes in a cave.
tcoh1s on
He may be the best person in line for who I can’t look at or listen to.
His ghoul face and talking down to everyone. And lip licking. Ish.
poplowpigasso on
also, nobody voted for Stephen Miller
Curt817 on
US is going to be banned from the 2028 Olympics.
tapdancinghellspawn on
Only Congress can create laws. He needs to shut the fuck up and let the rational grownups, if there are any left, run things. Little fascist dictator wannabe.
friendsafariguy11 on
Can dollar store Goebbels fuck off back to 1945?
chcampb on
Yeah so what happened is, actually pretty astounding, but the philosophical breakdown is basically this
– Hobbes first describes that without a sovereign, there is no enforceable law.
– In an equal scenario, states roughly equate to individuals such that there is no enforceable law. If one nation attacks another, there is nobody coming to help.
– A larger state would then, necessarily become the sovereign. Mostly this was NATO, which was intended to counter the soviet expansion plans after WW2.
– Miller is basically announcing that the US is taking the position that the strong can eat the weak. It is a rejection of social contract and importantly, of NATO, which would otherwise step in to prevent this sort of thing.
This leads to a return to a perpetual state of war. That’s just according to the philosophy of the thing. Everyone knows that you can’t just attack another country, right? Well, you can, if you don’t fear repercussions. It remains to be seen if repercussions from the other countries in NATO or latin america or the east would be sufficient (I don’t think anyone east of the EU would care to do anything)>
KoalaBoy on
Brb going to go kick my neighbors out of their house. Pretty sure they can’t defend it so I might as well move in.
freedadvice on
Id hand Trump a peace prize myself if he fired Stephen Miller. The world would instantly be better off.
pilot2969 on
Ultimately this just undermines the foundational principle of property rights. Everything that conservatism in this country vehemently “fights for”… if a nation cannot possess its territory simply because it cannot defend it, then no one can truly possess anything without being able to defend it. It’s the state of nature, it’s pre-civilizational thinking.
dakotanorth8 on
So when we getting “Vatican city, USA”?
catwiththumbs on
Has anyone managed to extract a semi-coherent reason they’re interested in this? None of the explanations make sense.
Is it just to have a bigger map?
Minute-Plantain on
I can’t wait for the day this douchebag is put in jail.
Short-Shopping3197 on
Sooo…I’m guessing nobody in the US government actually still thinks of themselves as being in NATO and recognising that the whole point is defending other countries that belong to it, without invading them?
True_Attorney_8543 on
Miller’s literally inventing legal frameworks to justify whatever authoritarian shit they want to do next, and the establishment dems are too busy fundraising to actually push back. this is how fascism gets normalized, through these little intellectual gymnastics that sound official enough to fool the media.
phoenix823 on
He sure did. How’s the price of eggs looking with the imminent destruction of NATO? Eggs any cheaper?
Electronic_Goat_7927 on
A small man with a small mind….I blame his parents for his dysfunction
LockNo2943 on
The US does not respect the sovereignty of other countries; end of story.
IMHO, the age of the US being a defender of democracy is over.
1cat2dogs1horse on
Has anybody else noticed that as of last night DJT is only taking about „buying“ Greenland, instead of his previous saber rattling? I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that he is rather quickly losing the support of his minions for this land grab in both houses of Congress?
SpiritualAd8998 on
Peewee German
10thflrinsanity on
This man is a racist idiot. It is mind boggling he ascended anywhere near power.
spiralenator on
“If you can’t stop me from robbing you, it’s not really your stuff.”
whatsgoingon350 on
He seems to have a lot of power for someone who wasn’t voted for.
Prometheus_303 on
>He claimed that, under “the law,” nations were not entitled to their territory if they were unable to defend it. The Trump aide belittled the Danish government, saying its “tiny” military was inadequately protecting Greenland.
Have the Danes failed to defend Greenland? It has been under their control for over 300 years now… That’s gotta account for something right …
And now that an (unfortunately) viable threat is upon them, they have (I do believe) started to act in an appropriate manner to protect their interests by building a larger military presence, just in case…
adfuel on
He claimed that, under “the law,” nations were not entitled to their territory if they were unable to defend it.
We agreed to defend it under NATO. How is any country going to trust us if we cant keep an agreement as important as this?
Positive_Chip6198 on
Those are prison rules, not laws, Stephen. If you want to live under prison rules, that can be arranged, and probably will be arranged once the depth of your high treasons have been exposed.
Stephen Miller is an enemy of the american democracy.
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Even by Miller’s somewhat loose standards, this one is particularly bonkers.
From [the article:](https://archive.is/20260117222710/https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-miller-invents-new-law-to-justify-trumps-greenland-obsession/)
“ White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller gave a new defense for Donald Trump’s Greenland power grab.
Miller presented a new law to defend the U.S.’ aggressive campaign to acquire Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark, during an appearance on Hannity on Friday night.
He claimed that, under “the law,” nations were not entitled to their territory if they were unable to defend it. The Trump aide belittled the Danish government, saying its “tiny” military was inadequately protecting Greenland.
“With respect to Denmark, Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy, and a tiny military,” Miller told host Sean Hannity. “They cannot defend Greenland. They cannot control the territory of Greenland. Under every understanding of law that has existed about territorial control for 500 years, to control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory, improve territory, inhabit a territory. Denmark has failed on every single one of these tests.”
Annexation and territorial conquest are illegal under international law, but Trump has not ruled out military action. The United Nations Charter—which the United States is a member of—Article 2, Section 4, specifically addresses the matter of threat or use of force against “the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.”
Trump has stated that the U.S. will take Greenland “one way or another.” „
>He claimed that, under “the law,” nations were not entitled to their territory if they were unable to defend it.
Literally medieval shit.
Guy looks like Dracula’s shaved testicle with a human face.
Greenland is defended by Article 5 of the NATO Treaty. The USA is a member of this treaty.
Article 5
The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security .
This is literally the same logic the Roman Empire, the British Empire, the Spanish Conquistadors and the Nazis used. He is defending Trump by using the same rhetoric that has led to war and genocides in the past.
Sounds like something Hitler would agree with.
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/04-806-Denmark-Defense.done_.pdf
Our government is gaslighting all of us, and laughing all the way to the bank. It’s no secret the US has had almost unlimited military access to Greenland since Truman was president.
This lizardman needs to go away.
The dweeb read Machiavelli and thinks it is a great political strategy ignoring Voltaire, the outcome Napoleonic wars and the Congress of Vienna.
Quoting Miller, emphasis mine:
> to control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory, *improve territory*, inhabit a territory. Denmark has failed on every single one of these tests.”
The “law” he is referencing was used by the original settlers of the what became the USA to justify the genocide of indigenous peoples.
Zinn talks about it in the first chapter of A Peoples History of the United States.
Basically the notion was that you only had legal right to land if you developed or improved it somehow. Since the indigenous peoples of this area did not erect buildings or terraform the land in any way, they “had no legal standing”.
Its a tale as old as time used by imperialists to take land from other societies.
I quote:
>When the pilgrims came to New England they too were coming not to vacant land but to territory inhabited by tribes of Indians. The governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop, created the excuse to take Indian land by declaring the area legally a ‘vacuum’. The Indians, he said, had not “subdued” the land and therefore had only a “natural” right to it, but not a “civil” right. A “natural” right did not have legal standing.
-Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States.
This book should be mandatory reading for every American.
This is definitely from the minds of the producers of „small government“.
He lives on a military base because he can’t defend his property.
Using his logic, he doesn’t deserve his marriage because he couldn’t defend getting cucked by Elon.
Nor does he deserve his house since can’t defend it and had to run to a military base to live.
https://www.arlnow.com/2025/10/30/family-of-top-white-house-official-moved-from-arlington-home-to-military-housing/
I swear he sleeps upside down by his toes in a cave.
He may be the best person in line for who I can’t look at or listen to.
His ghoul face and talking down to everyone. And lip licking. Ish.
also, nobody voted for Stephen Miller
US is going to be banned from the 2028 Olympics.
Only Congress can create laws. He needs to shut the fuck up and let the rational grownups, if there are any left, run things. Little fascist dictator wannabe.
Can dollar store Goebbels fuck off back to 1945?
Yeah so what happened is, actually pretty astounding, but the philosophical breakdown is basically this
– Hobbes first describes that without a sovereign, there is no enforceable law.
– In an equal scenario, states roughly equate to individuals such that there is no enforceable law. If one nation attacks another, there is nobody coming to help.
– A larger state would then, necessarily become the sovereign. Mostly this was NATO, which was intended to counter the soviet expansion plans after WW2.
– Miller is basically announcing that the US is taking the position that the strong can eat the weak. It is a rejection of social contract and importantly, of NATO, which would otherwise step in to prevent this sort of thing.
This leads to a return to a perpetual state of war. That’s just according to the philosophy of the thing. Everyone knows that you can’t just attack another country, right? Well, you can, if you don’t fear repercussions. It remains to be seen if repercussions from the other countries in NATO or latin america or the east would be sufficient (I don’t think anyone east of the EU would care to do anything)>
Brb going to go kick my neighbors out of their house. Pretty sure they can’t defend it so I might as well move in.
Id hand Trump a peace prize myself if he fired Stephen Miller. The world would instantly be better off.
Ultimately this just undermines the foundational principle of property rights. Everything that conservatism in this country vehemently “fights for”… if a nation cannot possess its territory simply because it cannot defend it, then no one can truly possess anything without being able to defend it. It’s the state of nature, it’s pre-civilizational thinking.
So when we getting “Vatican city, USA”?
Has anyone managed to extract a semi-coherent reason they’re interested in this? None of the explanations make sense.
Is it just to have a bigger map?
I can’t wait for the day this douchebag is put in jail.
Sooo…I’m guessing nobody in the US government actually still thinks of themselves as being in NATO and recognising that the whole point is defending other countries that belong to it, without invading them?
Miller’s literally inventing legal frameworks to justify whatever authoritarian shit they want to do next, and the establishment dems are too busy fundraising to actually push back. this is how fascism gets normalized, through these little intellectual gymnastics that sound official enough to fool the media.
He sure did. How’s the price of eggs looking with the imminent destruction of NATO? Eggs any cheaper?
A small man with a small mind….I blame his parents for his dysfunction
The US does not respect the sovereignty of other countries; end of story.
IMHO, the age of the US being a defender of democracy is over.
Has anybody else noticed that as of last night DJT is only taking about „buying“ Greenland, instead of his previous saber rattling? I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that he is rather quickly losing the support of his minions for this land grab in both houses of Congress?
Peewee German
This man is a racist idiot. It is mind boggling he ascended anywhere near power.
“If you can’t stop me from robbing you, it’s not really your stuff.”
He seems to have a lot of power for someone who wasn’t voted for.
>He claimed that, under “the law,” nations were not entitled to their territory if they were unable to defend it. The Trump aide belittled the Danish government, saying its “tiny” military was inadequately protecting Greenland.
Have the Danes failed to defend Greenland? It has been under their control for over 300 years now… That’s gotta account for something right …
And now that an (unfortunately) viable threat is upon them, they have (I do believe) started to act in an appropriate manner to protect their interests by building a larger military presence, just in case…
He claimed that, under “the law,” nations were not entitled to their territory if they were unable to defend it.
We agreed to defend it under NATO. How is any country going to trust us if we cant keep an agreement as important as this?
Those are prison rules, not laws, Stephen. If you want to live under prison rules, that can be arranged, and probably will be arranged once the depth of your high treasons have been exposed.
Stephen Miller is an enemy of the american democracy.