President-elect Donald Trump has said the importance of Greenland to national and global security cannot be overstated and former NATO supreme allied commander James Stavridis has agreed.

This from newsmax.com.

Dismissive leftists, cynical pundits, and the liberal propaganda media laughed off Trump’s suggestions of making the country an official U.S. territory.

But on The Cats Roundtable on WABC 770 AM-NY, the former NATO commander said:

It’s not a crazy idea.

We could do an awful lot in terms of business, investment, box out the Russians, box out the Chinese, and work very closely with Greenland.

The former NATO commander called the large Arctic Island:

[A] strategic goldmine for the United States.

Stavridis told host John Catsimatidis:

It sits at the very top of the North Atlantic; it protects approaches to our own country.

Further:

It’s geographically very important. It’s full of strategic minerals, rare earth, probably a lot of gold. It’s got a lot of natural resources.

And:

It doesn’t have to become the 51st state, but it can certainly be an economic objective for us. I think that’s how it plays out.

For skeptics refusing to listen to Trump’s logic, Stavridis reminded all to just listen to Greenland and its people.

According to The Hill, Stavridis said of Premier Múte Egede:

The prime minister of Greenland said, ‘We are not for sale, but we are open for business.’—I think we ought to take him at his word.

Regardless of forging a deal to bring Greenland under U.S. control from Denmark, the Greenlanders say they are at least ready for independence.

Prime Minister Egede said Friday:

Greenland is for the Greenlandic people.

We do not want to be Danish, we do not want to be American. We want to be Greenlandic.

Egede added he is “ready” to talk to Trump on a deal.

Final thought: An opportunity that will be pursued, no doubt.