A Senate Republican called out the administration for its increasingly belligerent rhetoric when it comes to annexing Greenland.

The president and his top policy advisor, Stephen Miller, have both refused to say that the U.S. wouldn’t invade Greenland in order to steal the island from NATO ally Denmark, a move that could lead to a war with Europe since Article 5 of NATO’s charter requires all members to join in the defense of any member nation that gets attacked.

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“We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else,” Miller told CNN’s Jake Tapper earlier this week. “But we live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power.”

“These are the iron laws of the world that existed since the beginning of time.”

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But Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who is very conservative, wasn’t having it. On Wednesday, Tillis bluntly called Miller “stupid” for his comments on Greenland in a Senate speech.

“Look, either Stephen Miller needs to get into a lane where he knows what he’s talking about or get out of this job,” Tillis told Tapper on Wednesday. “There is no more important alliance than the NATO alliance.”

“And Denmark has punched above its weight. It came to Afghanistan, lost 43 soldiers on the ground, fought in some of the most contested regions, honoring their Article 5 commitment to the United States.”

Tillis added that it is concerning that the prime minister of Denmark is warning the U.S. that attacking Greenland would end NATO and that it shows that “Mr. Miller does not know anything about the alliance.”

“And Stephen Miller doesn’t represent the US government; he represents the Article II branch. And I, as a member of the US Senate, get to weigh in to this issue,” he continued. “And I know, whether they say it out loud or not, most of my colleagues agree with me.”

Tapper asked him why Republicans aren’t saying more about the administration’s threats to NATO, which include the president’s statements that the U.S. should pull out of the alliance.

Tillis pointed to his role as the GOP leader of the Senate NATO Observer Group to explain why he is the only Republican who appears to oppose the administration’s plans to end NATO.

“It’s very important for the NATO alliance to know that we have their back because they’ve had ours.”

“We need to make it very clear that our strength and our ability to project power to stand off against Putin, to stand off Russia, to stand off China, Iran, it all rests on this exquisite capability that we have under NATO.”

The only country to call on other member nations to come to its defense in the history of the alliance is the United States, which did so after the World Trade Center attacks.

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