Edward Feser, First Things
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
The Trump administration’s recent military engagement with Venezuela and rhetoric with respect to Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, and Greenland mark a new bellicosity in foreign policy, and one at odds with the antiwar tenor of the president’s campaign rhetoric. In the case of Greenland, the aim is a frankly expansionist one of securing new territory for the U.S. What should a Christian think of all this? Whatever one thinks of the Crusades and the history of the Catholic empires, they provide no theological or moral justification for actions like taking Greenland by either military force or the threat of it.
