President Trump rules out Greenland tariffs and military force
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
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President Trump announced yesterday that he was canceling his planned tariffs on US allies in Europe over US control of Greenland. The announcement came after he and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte agreed to the “framework of a future deal” on Arctic security. Earlier in the day, Mr. Trump also stated that he was ruling out military force to acquire the island. Such reticence is understandable. A basic principle undergirding the world order is that nations are sovereign and that no country has the right to impose its values on another. Let’s apply this thesis to the most urgent moral issue of our day.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for joining us for the Thursday, January the 22nd, 2026 edition of The Daily |
| 0:08.1 | Article Podcast from Denison Forum. I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by |
| 0:13.5 | Dr. Jim Denison, Cultural Theologian. President Trump announced yesterday that he was |
| 0:20.0 | canceling his planned tariffs on U.S. allies in Europe over U.S. control of Greenland. |
| 0:25.7 | The announcement came after he and NATO Secretary Mark Ruta agreed to the framework of a future deal on Arctic security. |
| 0:34.2 | Earlier in the day, Mr. Trump also stated that he was ruling out military force to |
| 0:39.1 | acquire the island. As Dr. Ryan Dennison explained in Tuesday's edition of The Focus, |
| 0:45.2 | missile defense systems that form a primary deterrent against attack on the U.S. rely heavily |
| 0:50.8 | on Greenland's location. Melting ice caps have opened shipping lanes that were previously |
| 0:55.7 | closed. Russia and China have increased their presence in the region. There are also significant |
| 1:01.6 | rare earth minerals, oil, and hydrocarbon reserves on the island. All of this argues for Greenland's |
| 1:08.2 | escalating geopolitical and military significance for the U.S. in these fraught days. |
| 1:13.6 | Nonetheless, Mr. Trump's statement that he would not use military force or tariffs to acquire the island was met with approval. |
| 1:21.3 | In fact, only 17% of Americans support the U.S. taking Greenland, only 8% support using military force to do so. |
| 1:29.7 | Such reticence is understandable. A basic principle undergirding the world order is that nations |
| 1:35.4 | are sovereign and that no country has the right to impose its values on another. |
| 1:40.5 | Let's apply this thesis to the most urgent moral issue of our day. |
| 1:44.9 | January 22nd is the saddest anniversary of the year. |
| 1:48.2 | More than 65 million babies have lost their lives in the U.S. |
| 1:53.1 | since the Supreme Court discovered a right to abortion in the U.S. Constitution on this day in 1973. |
| 2:05.6 | More than a million babies in the U.S. were aborted in 2024. This makes abortion the leading cause of death in America, far out stripping heart disease, |
| 2:10.6 | the second leading cause of death, with 680,981 fatalities. |
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