Ted Cruz Isn’t Defending Policy — He’s Defending a King

You can’t defend democracy while kneeling to a king

When truth bends to power, the lies don’t stop — they grow. Democracy doesn't survive men like this.

Let’s be clear: Greenland is not for sale.
It’s not a bargaining chip.
It’s not a colonial outpost.
And it’s not a consolation prize for a leader who couldn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize the honest way.

But that didn’t stop Senator Ted Cruz from going on Fox News this week to say it’s “overwhelmingly in America's national interest to acquire Greenland,” praising Donald Trump for being “single-mindedly focused on America First.”

It would be laughable—if it weren’t so dangerous.

Because behind this fantasy is a worldview that’s all too real:

• One where power matters more than people.

• Where flattery replaces diplomacy.

• Where leaders treat sovereignty like real estate, and democracy like branding.

What’s really happening?

Greenland is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark. It has its own government, culture, and legal system. The vast majority of its population is Indigenous Inuit — a people with no interest in becoming a U.S. asset.

To suggest otherwise isn’t just insulting — it’s colonialist.
It erases Indigenous agency, violates international norms, and stomps all over the democratic principle of self-determination.

But Trump doesn’t care about that.
And apparently, neither does Cruz.

Instead, they sell a fantasy:

That “America First” means taking what we want — simply because we can.
That expansionism isn’t a stain of our past, but a roadmap for our future.
That empire is strength, and restraint is weakness.

Let’s call it what it is:
Performative imperialism in a populist crown.

It’s not patriotic. It’s not serious.
And it’s certainly not democratic.

Because when leaders blur the line between fantasy and foreign policy, they don’t just erode credibility — they erode the very norms that hold peace in place.

And let’s not ignore the racial undertones:

Colonial thinking has always justified the exploitation of Indigenous land and identity in the name of national interest.
Greenland is just the latest object of this legacy — a mostly non-white territory reduced to a trophy for white power fantasies.

Cruz isn’t thinking about the people of Greenland.
He’s not thinking about America’s moral authority.
He’s thinking about one man — and how to stay in his favor.

And that man isn’t a president anymore.
He’s a king in exile, still collecting fealty from those too weak to stand without him.

This isn’t strategy.
It’s sycophancy.

And if we don’t call it out — forcefully, truthfully, and with historical clarity — it will spread.