During an appearance on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) discussed a war powers resolution he supports alongside five other Republican senators. This resolution aims to restrict President Donald Trump’s authority to launch further military actions in Venezuela. Interestingly, he noted that the resolution also concerns Greenland.

Here is a portion of the transcript:

RADDATZ:  And just quickly, if I can get you on Greenland. You said this week, you’ll do everything to stop any kind of military takeover of Greenland. The White House said that was not off the table. But do you actually think he would use military force or is there — are we overreacting to that?

PAUL:  I would hope not. But let’s say you wanted to buy Greenland  and I’m not disputing that that might be something we might want, to buy Greenland. You don’t get there by angering and denigrating the people who live there and saying, “We’re going to march the Marines in and take if you don’t sell it to us.” It doesn’t make them very willing to sell to us.

So really, if your goal is somehow we’re going to rattle the saber and then they’re going to sell it to us, I think it’s having the opposite effect. I think you’d be hard-pressed to find someone in Greenland for it, but you’d also be hard-pressed to find somebody in Washington who’s for a military invasion on either side of the aisle.

So, I think there’ll be enough pressure to stop it. But the problem is, they keep rattling the saber. They keep saying we’re going to do this. We keep this in our armamentarium that we will, you know, reserve the right to invade Greenland.

And that gets back to the War Powers Act. That’s why this debate is so important, because it’s not just about Venezuela. It’s about Venezuela. It’s about Greenland. It’s about Colombia. It’s about Cuba. It’s about whether or not the people get a say in whether we go to war.

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