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CNN’s lone conservative, Scott Jennings, defended President-elect Donald Trump’s expansionist vision for America on Tuesday.

Appearing on a panel alongside CNN host Abby Phillip and Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin, Jennings challenged the idea posited by Rogin that “America is not an expansionist military power, not in the 21st century.”

“Why not?” Jennings pushed back.

Listen to Rogin’s reply below:

(Video Credit: CNN)

“Because that’s not the world that we live in,” Rogin replied. “So you’re for attacking Greenland, Scott. Is that what you’re saying?”

Rogin referenced Trump’s recent admission that he won’t rule out using military action against countries that refuse to join the United States.

“No, we don’t need to attack Greenland,” Jennings fired back. “We can buy it.”

“We can’t buy it,” Rogin countered. “It’s not up for sale. So, what you’re saying is not true.”

“Everything’s not for sale until it is,” Jennings responded.

Phillip then cut in to offer her take.

“We helped to create a world order in which we said you cannot just decide you want that country and then take your military and go into that country and take it, okay?” she said. “So that is the era of not being in an expansionist military era for the United States, and you’re saying that’s not true. Why is it not?”

Jennings responded with a lengthy answer explaining why Trump is right to “think big.”

“Well, I mean, you can think small if you want to, [but] I think Trump’s thinking big and he’s thinking about U.S. interests,” Jennings said. “There are U.S. interests in Greenland. They have rare earth minerals. We already have some kind of space facility there, and it would help fortify us against the Russians. The Panama Canal is, of course, of interest when you consider the Chinese incursions and influence in this hemisphere.”

“What Donald Trump is saying to the world is, we are not a shrinking violet anymore. We are the United States of America. We are the preeminent superpower. And reporters keep asking him to rule things out and take things off the table. And it would be the height of stupidity to do so now or to anything else before he takes office. Why would he tell the rest of the world what he may or may not do here?” Jennings added.

Responding on Twitter/X to the discussion, some critics mocked Phillip and Rogin for suddenly being against expansionism and global unity when the party they align with (Democrats) is dedicated to globalism.

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Other critics noted that all Trump is doing with his recent tough talk is setting the foundation for a great future deal.

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All this comes after Trump on Tuesday refused to rule out using the military to gain control of the Panama Canal and Greenland.

Even the New York Times hesitantly admitted that all of this bluster is likely just the precursor to some sort of deal, though the paper’s writers certainly weren’t happy about it.

“Perhaps Mr. Trump was posturing, for negotiating advantage,” a blurb from the Times reads. “Yet not since the days of William McKinley, who engaged in the Spanish-American War in the late 19th century and ended up with U.S. control of the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico, has an American president-elect so blatantly threatened the use of force to expand the country’s territorial boundaries.”

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