"The United States needs Greenland for the purpose of National Security. It is vital for the Golden Dome that we are building," President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social on Wednesday. Trump is right. Grab a globe and look down from the North Pole, or check out this official Pentagon map. You will see that Greenland is pivotal to the Arctic front. Greenland's eastern coast guards the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom or GIUK. This is the entry gate to the Atlantic for Russian President Vladimir Putin's nuclear-armed submarines. Greenland hosts important early warning radar sites because its field of view covers so much of the bomber and missile flight routes from Russia and China. No Greenland, no Golden Dome missile shield. That's why Trump lit a bonfire under Denmark and NATO to spur much-needed progress to counter aggressive moves by Russia and China.

President Donald Trump is right: The United States needs Greenland for its national security. But it doesn't need to actually own Greenland; Trump can easily address U.S. security concerns without taking full control of the island. Indeed, the model lies on another island just 90 miles off our shores — at the U.S. Naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In February 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt signed a lease agreement with Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma giving the U.S. the right to "coaling and naval stations" at Guantánamo. Under the agreement, the U.S. recognized "the continuance of the ultimate sovereignty of the Republic of Cuba" over Guantánamo while Cuba agreed that "the United States shall exercise complete jurisdiction and control" over the base. In 1934, as part of a new "Cuban-American Treaty of Relations," the two countries locked in the lease, which they agreed would continue in perpetuity "so long as the United States of America shall not abandon the said naval sta…

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