1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: Hey, Michael, I'm not sure if it's occurring to you 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:08,560 Speaker 1: or anybody else today, but pretty much everything you're talking 3 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: about it is all the symptom of failure to enforce 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:21,080 Speaker 1: or follow laws. Nothing but from the state of Colorado 5 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,119 Speaker 1: robbing you in fees to pay for what taxes should cover, 6 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: to illegal immigration, to refugee status. 7 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:33,639 Speaker 2: Well, I haven't thought about in those terms, and you're 8 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 2: absolutely correct. Now the next topic I'm gonna. 9 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 3: Approrefect of look as the comment to that talk pack, Yeah, 10 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 3: why follow the law when you can just make new laws? 11 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 2: Why follow the law when you just Why write laws 12 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 2: when you're just gonna do what you want to do? 13 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:53,160 Speaker 4: Anyway, it's probably more true. 14 00:00:53,240 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Greenland, Greenland, Land, What do you say, dragon Greenland? Yeah, Tomato, Yeah, 15 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 2: it's fine. Yeah, everybody's in a tizzy over Greenland. 16 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 5: Let's see. 17 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 2: Let's first go to uh the Danish member. Uh, I 18 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 2: sort of say, a Danish member from Denmark. The a 19 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 2: Denmark member of the European Union. 20 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 6: Joining us right now is a Danish member of European Park. 21 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,400 Speaker 6: Honor's vistas, and thank you so much for being here. 22 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:34,680 Speaker 6: I really appreciate you coming on. Let me ask you 23 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 6: first about what we are hearing about Marco Rubio and 24 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,839 Speaker 6: his role and his message, if you will Marcro Rubo 25 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 6: downplaying the lawmakers that. 26 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 2: I saw the best meme about Rubio today. I'm sorry 27 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 2: to interrupt this, but like this, it's in my head. 28 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 2: Remember when they had the first meeting between Zelensky and 29 00:01:55,200 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 2: Trump and JD. Vance and Rubio secretary Room were sitting 30 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 2: on the couch to Trump's left and they were having 31 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 2: that big argument and Trump was telling Zelenski, you don't 32 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:09,799 Speaker 2: have the cards, and Rubio was kind of sitting there 33 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 2: with his hands in his lap, kind of with his 34 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 2: head down, but his eyes kind of looking up like 35 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:15,520 Speaker 2: good grief. 36 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 5: I can't believe this. 37 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 2: People have taken him and they claim that he's going 38 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 2: to be the new Viceroy of Venezuela. So they have 39 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:29,239 Speaker 2: him in, you know, this Latin American dictator of garb 40 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,959 Speaker 2: sitting on the couch with that look. And then another 41 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 2: being is Rubio learning that he's going to be the 42 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 2: new president of Greenland, and they've got in this white 43 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 2: like Eskimo outfit, all bundled up as if he's freezing 44 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 2: to death, sitting there with that same look in his 45 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 2: face on the same couch in the same position. 46 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 5: I'm sorry, but I think it's funny. Dragon. 47 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 2: If you can find those, you have to put them 48 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 2: up because they're freaking hilarious. 49 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,359 Speaker 5: Back to cinn. 50 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 6: Threat military action that the White House administration is considering 51 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:09,079 Speaker 6: buying buying Greenland and does that feel reassuring to you 52 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 6: at all? 53 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:15,799 Speaker 7: No, I think it's a signal that the Danish government 54 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 7: has not communicated Employe clearly to the US administration that 55 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 7: the time where powers can buy and sell a former 56 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 7: colonies self calling territory is long gone. Is not something 57 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 7: that that is feasible, so something that can be done, 58 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 7: and it's not something that is realistic in any way 59 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 7: or form. And to be frank, I think we in 60 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 7: them are quite fit up with this attitude from the 61 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 7: US administration and the clear messages that it is not 62 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 7: for sale. It's not something you can negotiate about, and 63 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 7: you're not going to be able to pressure a bully 64 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 7: US into submission on this. 65 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 2: I don't know who originally said that everything is for sale. 66 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 2: I believe that everything is for sale. Now maybe you 67 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 2: claim you're not, maybe you claim I don't know where 68 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 2: that's coming from. Dragon, I don't know that move all 69 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 2: my wires. I'd like to believe that my soul is 70 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,600 Speaker 2: not for sale. I'd like to believe that. 71 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:16,840 Speaker 8: You know. 72 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:20,359 Speaker 2: I wouldn't sell my dogs offer me a billion dollars, 73 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 2: I'd sell my producer an art beat for a billion pesos. 74 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 5: You wanted me here. 75 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 2: Sometimes you actually get what you want, not what you get, 76 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 2: what you deserve, not what you really wanted. 77 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 5: Everything's for sale. 78 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 2: The Louisiana purchase Alaska, the Gadsden purchase, the Philippines. 79 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:52,160 Speaker 8: But do it go? 80 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 2: We We've bought and sold so much crap in our 81 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 2: in our history that just because it hasn't happened for 82 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:03,160 Speaker 2: a while. By the way, Alaska is not that old. 83 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 2: I forget the year that Alaska became a state. But 84 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 2: wasn't it, Like, wasn't in the late fifties. I'm sorry, 85 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 2: I don't. I'm sorry to our one listener in Alaska, 86 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 2: but I don't remember when Alaska became a state. 87 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 4: January third, nineteen fifty nine. 88 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:20,600 Speaker 5: Ninety just before the sixties. 89 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:23,479 Speaker 2: Yeah, you came in just at the right time before 90 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:24,480 Speaker 2: everything went to crap. 91 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 5: Well why not? Why is it so out of the 92 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 5: realm of thinking. 93 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 2: That people can't even consider the possibility of purchasing Greenland. 94 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 5: I would say to that. 95 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 2: Now, first of all, let's recognize that whoever this y'all 96 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 2: who is on CNN was, was particularly picked by a 97 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 2: producer for that CNN segment because they were looking for 98 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 2: someone who would say that, oh, it's just impossible. It 99 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 2: just hasn't happened in years. 100 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 7: The former colony self calling territory is on gone. 101 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 5: It's long gone. Who says it's long gone? 102 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 2: Just because something's long gone doesn't mean that it can't 103 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 2: be revived. It's not a good idea that it can't 104 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 2: happen again. But everybody's already closed their minds and all, 105 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 2: we can't do it. I think that this country ought 106 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 2: to move to bring Greenland under American control through a negotiated, 107 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 2: lawful arrangement, because that island now sits at the center 108 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 2: of national security, great power competition between US, the Chinese, 109 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 2: and the Russians, energy and mineral independence in the Arctic, 110 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 2: And I think properly understood, Greenland is no longer a 111 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:44,720 Speaker 2: curiosity on the wall map made to look on the 112 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:46,840 Speaker 2: Merketer scale much larger. 113 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 5: Than it really is. 114 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 3: Real quick before we get to a break here. I 115 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 3: like comparables. Yes, our current president was born in nineteen 116 00:06:53,839 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 3: forty six. Yes he is older than Alaska. Just just 117 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 3: want to throw that out there, comparables. 118 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 4: Here, I'm just saying, well, and what a great parting gift. 119 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 2: You know, you can't run again. So here I gave 120 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 2: us Greenland. Now what I find and I'll give you 121 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 2: in this just a minute. But it is not a 122 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 2: curiosity on the wall map. Think of it instead, change, 123 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 2: you know, do a little paradigm shift here, slap your 124 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 2: head a little bit. It is the forward operating platform 125 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 2: for the free world. 126 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 5: In the North. 127 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 2: Most Americans don't ever think about the Arctic. Three damn 128 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 2: cold polar bears. Oh, the Arctic ice is melting though 129 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 2: it's not. Oh let's see who wants a bunch of ice? 130 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 5: Maybe we do, Maybe we want it. I'll explain why. 131 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 8: Good morning. I'm not calling dragon. It was very funny 132 00:07:55,680 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 8: yesterday on CNN they had to admit the approved ratings 133 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 8: for Democrats are lower than the dead Sea. 134 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 9: I don't know how the damn thing they're going to 135 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 9: get out of the mess they have created for themselves 136 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 9: the last few years, all the lies after lies and 137 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 9: they try to. 138 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 8: Deflect everything, and it'll be interesting. 139 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 2: It'll be interesting, but do not underestimate them, because remember, 140 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 2: the Democrats are an inherent component of the cabal. So 141 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 2: you've got the Democrats and their stenographers in the dominant 142 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 2: media who will just amplify all of their talking points 143 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 2: for them. And then you couple that with useful idiots 144 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 2: to succumb to the cabal, and you've got a recipe 145 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 2: for disaster. So we have to work doubly hard to overcome. 146 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 2: I mean, it's like, you know, it's like a high 147 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 2: school football team trying to play the Broncos. You got 148 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 2: to work extra No, he could be done. Any given 149 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 2: team can be beaten on any given day. Which coach, 150 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 2: some coach said that. I forget who it was. Here's 151 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 2: the classic example of a straw man argument. Back to 152 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:20,479 Speaker 2: CNN again, but this time it's a Democratic Congressman, Chris Nemorthy. 153 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:23,719 Speaker 10: Well, here's another thing that may be a distraction, or 154 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 10: it may be real. The White House saying they are 155 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 10: not taking military action off the table to take Greenland. 156 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 5: That's a negotiating point. 157 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 2: Some I don't know in the context of what it was, 158 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 2: but I think it was Rubio on the Sunday news 159 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:44,559 Speaker 2: shows with a response to anything that might happen in Venezuela, 160 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 2: and they were like, oh my. 161 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 5: Gosh, are gonna be boots on the ground. 162 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 2: Trump said he's that, you know, he would be willing 163 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 2: to put boots on the ground. And the response I 164 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 2: thought was very recent and very logical and truthful. When 165 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 2: you're in these situations and you're negotiating, you're trying to 166 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 2: get from point A. 167 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 5: To point B. Nothing is off the table. 168 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:09,959 Speaker 2: You don't want you don't want to say to the 169 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 2: people you're negotiating with. If if, if I'm going to 170 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 2: go negotiate with, you know, the big boss, the petite 171 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 2: big boss that was in here earlier, I'm not going 172 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 2: to tell her. Look, I want X y Z, but 173 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 2: I don't care about you know ABC, I want a 174 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 2: through Z. I want everything. And now we can talk Mat, 175 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 2: I'll get her to make the first move. 176 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 5: Yeah. 177 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 10: I want you to listen to what a member of 178 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 10: the European Parliament said to our Kate Baldin just this morning. 179 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 7: The time where Paulas can buy and sell the former 180 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 7: colonies self coning territory is long gone. 181 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 5: Is not something that that is you want to just. 182 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 2: Hit me listening to this guy again. This is the 183 00:10:55,679 --> 00:11:03,439 Speaker 2: guy from Denmark, the EU rep uh colonies? Is he 184 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 2: saying that Greenland is a colony of Denmark? I thought 185 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 2: it was a protector. He's using the the inflammatory term colony. Okay, well, 186 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:16,199 Speaker 2: if it's a colony, maybe you gotta go liberate it. 187 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:19,840 Speaker 7: He's something that can be done, and it's not something 188 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 7: that is realistic in any way of phoning. And to 189 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 7: be frank, I think we in denm are quite fit 190 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:29,599 Speaker 7: up with this astute from the US administration. And the 191 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 7: key message is that it's not for sale, is not 192 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 7: something you can negotiate about, and you're not going to 193 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:38,199 Speaker 7: be able to pressure a bully US into submission on this. 194 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 2: Now, before you hear the congressman answer, I'd like to 195 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 2: say this to this little twit. Okay, Denmark, when Russia 196 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:51,439 Speaker 2: invades it or Russia takes it over, what are you 197 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 2: gonna call huh? Are you gonna call Ghostbusters? No, you're 198 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:58,840 Speaker 2: gonna call NATO. You're gonna call on us to protect 199 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 2: what you're supposed to be protecting because. 200 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,680 Speaker 5: You don't have the ability to do so, you can't 201 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:04,280 Speaker 5: take care of it. 202 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 4: Now. 203 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 2: But I digress because no one is actually thinking about now. 204 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:12,840 Speaker 2: Maybe Trump, in the back of his head it really 205 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 2: does have military action on the table. Maybe he really does. 206 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:19,680 Speaker 2: I don't know, and neither do you. Only Trump knows, 207 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,960 Speaker 2: but listen to the congressman. 208 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:27,959 Speaker 11: Next, I sent an email to Dragon proving that a 209 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:30,839 Speaker 11: grandpa from South Dakota can drive a cool car. 210 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 4: Everyone have a great day. 211 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 3: You sent a photo of the car, So you sent 212 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,959 Speaker 3: a photo of you standing next to the car or 213 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 3: in the car. 214 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 4: Nope, no, he's not in the car. 215 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 5: He's not even in the photo. 216 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 4: He's in the photo with the car. Oh okay, but 217 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 4: not in the car. 218 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:53,959 Speaker 2: So he just went to some collector somewhere and stood 219 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 2: next to the cool car exactly, said take hey here, babe, 220 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:58,559 Speaker 2: take a picture of me and send it to you, 221 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 2: and expects us to all hooked line and singerphore. 222 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:03,439 Speaker 3: And took a really cool stock photo of you know, 223 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 3: the car right in front of a lake too. It's 224 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 3: it's a beautiful photo, beautiful car. But yeah, it's a wonderful. 225 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:11,439 Speaker 2: Stock Does it look like it's springtime or does it 226 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 2: look like it's wintertime? 227 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:13,840 Speaker 5: Yeah? Spring springtime? 228 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:18,560 Speaker 4: Oh yes, tops down everything yeah, uh huh, yeah, can't. 229 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 5: Nothing gets past us. Nothing. 230 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:25,640 Speaker 2: You was trying to pull a wool over our eyes. 231 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 2: Back to this dip Wood congressman, So what do. 232 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 10: You tell NATO allies who as a group have come 233 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 10: out and said Greenland belongs to its people and only them. 234 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 2: If Greenland belongs only to its people and only to them, 235 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 2: then why is Denmark involved in anything? 236 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 5: Just let them go govern themselves. 237 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 11: I would say I agree with them, and I think 238 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 11: that any kind of military attack on a fellow NATO 239 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:03,679 Speaker 11: ally would be disastrous. That's exactly what our adversaries in 240 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 11: Moscow in beision would be cheering, and it would lower 241 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 11: our national security dramatically. 242 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:13,079 Speaker 2: Now stop and think for a moment that I know 243 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:15,439 Speaker 2: you listen to it and you recognize that this is 244 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:18,719 Speaker 2: a straw man argument, and you recognize that he's trying to, 245 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:21,560 Speaker 2: you know, inflate the you know, fear mongering. 246 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 5: And oh my gosh, that's the CHRISTI is all chaos. 247 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 5: I know you understand that. 248 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 2: But I want you to put aside your own mental 249 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 2: capacity for a moment, and I want you to be 250 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:38,360 Speaker 2: a useful idiot, because that's who's watching CMN. So you're 251 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 2: a useful idiot watching CMN and you hear that, And 252 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 2: I can tell you right now, and in fact, I 253 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 2: can probably go to my Facebook feed and I can 254 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 2: tell you that there's about five people I can name 255 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 2: that are going to be in my feed that are like, oh, yeah, 256 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 2: you know what Trump's gonna Trump's gonna send troops into Greenland. 257 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 2: We're gonna take it over. My gosh, we historically we 258 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 2: can't do. That's not that's not our values. 259 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 11: Really, and I think it would plunge us into the 260 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 11: possibility of further conflict. Again, that is the opposite of 261 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 11: what the American people want. They don't want more conflict. 262 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 11: They don't want endless wars. They want us to be 263 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 11: focused on our problems here at home and the horrible economy. 264 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 2: An endless war if I don't advocate it, and I 265 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 2: don't think it's going to happen. 266 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 5: As I said, I think. 267 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 2: A negotiated purchase of Greenland is a great deal or 268 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 2: some sort of new you know, give them some sort 269 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 2: of an arrangement, like, you know, make them a territory. 270 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 2: I don't care, but do it. But if we did invade, 271 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 2: how long do you think that would last? And what 272 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 2: do you think NATO would really do? What would but 273 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 2: first of all Russia and China. I'd be more concerned 274 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:53,479 Speaker 2: about what Russia and China might do. The European Union's 275 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 2: a bunch of wilsims. They're not going to do anything. 276 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 2: In fact, they can't do anything. They depend upon us 277 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 2: for their own defense. Quite frankly, that's why we need 278 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 2: to have them increase their share of their defense budgets 279 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 2: and get rid of a green new Deal crap. So yeah, 280 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 2: mister big talk, But again, think about the useful that 281 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 2: it's listening to this, and. 282 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 4: I mean that faces working families. 283 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 10: Do you think his rhetoric on agreement is startling enough 284 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 10: to have a bipartisan support to reign in war powers? 285 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 4: Potentially? 286 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:25,120 Speaker 10: I know one of your colleagues in the Senate is looking. 287 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 4: Potentially. 288 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 11: I mean, he said all kinds of things about Greenland. 289 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 11: He even started talking about Canada and Mexico Colombia. 290 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 5: I think that we're taking over the world, or it's 291 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:42,760 Speaker 5: like over the world. You know, I'm kind of tired 292 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 5: of him. Do you know your history? 293 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 2: These are land editions that became states and nexations like 294 00:16:56,160 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 2: we're talking about with Greenland. First, don't forget the original 295 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:08,119 Speaker 2: thirteen colonies. Oh, that didn't belong to us. That belonged 296 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 2: to Great Britain. King George Hey, King George fack me, 297 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 2: we took them. Vermont, Hey, Bernie, Socialist Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders. Vermont, 298 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:25,120 Speaker 2: you became part of the United States after your claims 299 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 2: were resolved in seventeen ninety one. The Louisiana purchase. We 300 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 2: bought it from France eighteen o three for them east 301 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:37,200 Speaker 2: and west from Spain the Adams Honus Treaty. You remember 302 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:41,200 Speaker 2: that from school? No, probably not Texas. We annexed the 303 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 2: Republic of Texas back in eighteen Texam tell me eighteen 304 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:49,879 Speaker 2: forty five. I don't remember Oregon country south of the 305 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 2: forty ninth parallel. We bought that with the treaty from 306 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 2: Great Britain. The Mexican Session following the Mexican American War 307 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 2: in eighteen forty eight. That included almost all California, Nevada, Utah, 308 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:04,360 Speaker 2: a lot of Arizona, parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, 309 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 2: the Gadsden purchased from Mexico. I got a great antique 310 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 2: map of the Gadston purchase from eighteen fifty three. We 311 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:14,440 Speaker 2: wanted that for a railroad route in today's southern Arizona 312 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:17,160 Speaker 2: and New Mexico and Alaska. 313 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:17,680 Speaker 5: Porol Alaska. 314 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:21,920 Speaker 2: We bought from the Rooskies and we annexed the Republic 315 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:26,680 Speaker 2: of Hawaii. All right, gosh, we're just colonizers. We're a 316 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:31,159 Speaker 2: bunch of raceist colonizers. Yet you want to give up 317 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:34,160 Speaker 2: any of those, you want to turn them away? Well, 318 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 2: maybe California. Maybe California. Now those are land masses that 319 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 2: actually became part of the United States. What about the 320 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 2: territories Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines, American Samoa, Wake Island, the 321 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 2: Panama Canal Zone. Oh, my gosh, the debate when Reagan 322 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 2: wanted to turn it back over. Oh my gosh, the Panela, Well, Reagan, 323 00:18:56,720 --> 00:19:01,399 Speaker 2: that's a big battle, big fight. Guantanamo Bay, the Danish 324 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,879 Speaker 2: West Indies, Rich now, the US Virgin Islands, Oh, Denmark, 325 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:09,399 Speaker 2: mister Danish guy, we took those from you back in 326 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 2: nineteen seventeen. Yes, and the Northern Mariana Islands, the Marshall Islands, 327 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 2: the Carolina Islands. Let's see, there's some otherfic. There's a 328 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 2: whole bunch of Pacific islands, like the Guano Islands and Midway. 329 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 2: I I can't think of some others, but then some 330 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 2: of those actually became territories Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, 331 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:33,840 Speaker 2: the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands. 332 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 5: It's so uncommonwealth, but it's the territory of the US. 333 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:41,920 Speaker 5: There's a whole bunch gods and gods. 334 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 2: Of uninhabited or sparsely populated possessions like Midway Island and 335 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 2: the others. 336 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 5: So this is nothing new, nothing new whatsoever. 337 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 2: The policy case for doing this for annexation is for 338 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 2: US to get formal control over Greenland, whether through a purchase, 339 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 2: you know, some sort of compact, or maybe just a 340 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 2: full annexation with the with the consent of the Greenlanders. 341 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 2: I really don't care about the people of the Danish people, 342 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:12,119 Speaker 2: but maybe we have to include them. 343 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 5: I don't know. 344 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:20,480 Speaker 2: Not a temporary basing agreement, and I don't want to 345 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 2: vague MoU memorandum of understanding, because that would extend US military, economic, 346 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:29,440 Speaker 2: and legal frameworks over the island. It would integrated into 347 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 2: American defense planning if we lock in western control of 348 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:35,200 Speaker 2: the Arctic approaches for generations, and that might be a 349 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 2: good deal. Control is not theoretical. And again here's where 350 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 2: I think a lot of Americans system't. They just don't 351 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 2: get it. 352 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 5: Greenland already hosts the Toofik Thuly Space base. 353 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 4: You never heard of it. 354 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:57,160 Speaker 2: I honestly knew we had something, but I wasn't quite 355 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,360 Speaker 2: sure what it was. It's a critical note in US 356 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 2: early warning blistic missile defense systems. We've spent billions of 357 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:08,440 Speaker 2: dollars to upgrade that in recent years. Any any intercontinal 358 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 2: missile blistered blistic missile attack from Russia on the homeland 359 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,360 Speaker 2: would transit right over Greenland's airspace. 360 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 5: So that would be the first trip wire in a 361 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 5: world where. 362 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 2: We now have hypersonic missiles that can press decision times 363 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:31,120 Speaker 2: two minutes, if not seconds. So yeah, I think, strategically, 364 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:35,800 Speaker 2: why why do we hessit to a knee jerk reaction 365 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 2: that oh my gosh, we can't do this when I 366 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 2: think there's every sort of strategic national security reason to 367 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 2: do it. And all we have to do is cut 368 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:50,159 Speaker 2: out all the noise from all of the knee jerkers 369 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 2: about oh my gosh, we're gonna ann act the territory 370 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 2: and we're gonna send the military there's gonna be boots 371 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 2: on the ground. Wait wait a minute, we were they 372 00:21:56,280 --> 00:22:02,240 Speaker 2: good boots on the ground there already. There's another reason. 373 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:07,040 Speaker 2: Think of it as the fulcrum of the Arctic. I 374 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:08,639 Speaker 2: know nobody cares about the Arctic. 375 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:10,160 Speaker 5: I do you should? 376 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 2: Greenland occupies a hinge if you will, between North America 377 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:20,440 Speaker 2: and Europe, anchoring what's called the Greenland Iceland UK Gap. 378 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 2: It's a maritime choke point that connects the Arctic Ocean 379 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 2: to the North Atlantic. Historically, that was important in the 380 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 2: Second World War. 381 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 5: That corridor was. 382 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 2: Vital for our resupplying Europe in the twenty first century. 383 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 2: Once again, it's the gateway through which Russian submarines and 384 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:44,719 Speaker 2: aircraft have to pass to reach the Atlantic Sea lanes 385 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:46,360 Speaker 2: and to get to NATO territory. 386 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 5: That alone right there. 387 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 2: Forget all the minerals, forget everything else. Just the strategic 388 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:58,360 Speaker 2: location of that island is important to our future. Now, 389 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:03,800 Speaker 2: if you believe as I do, that Russia has designs 390 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 2: on world domination, just like Gigene Ping does over in 391 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 2: communists China. What Trump's doing here, it's brilliant, It's truly brilliant. 392 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 2: I know it's unorthodox, but it's the kind of strategic 393 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 2: realignment that we really ought to be considering in the 394 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 2: twenty first century. We're no longer protected by two oceans. 395 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 2: Do you really think, without due respect to anybody listening 396 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:36,159 Speaker 2: to me in Canada, and I know some of you are, 397 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:41,120 Speaker 2: to all due respect to the Canadians, I don't really 398 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,880 Speaker 2: have a lot of confidence in your ability to protect 399 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:49,400 Speaker 2: us on the North and Mexico. Ah, you're a cartel nation. 400 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 2: Your government's run by the cartels. I don't trust you 401 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 2: in one iota. So, yes, we need more strategic defense 402 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 2: than we. 403 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:01,639 Speaker 5: Currently have. 404 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 2: Now. If you believe that climate change, there's no easy 405 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:15,600 Speaker 2: way to weave this in. But if you believe that 406 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:20,920 Speaker 2: Arctic sea ice is receding, which I think that it 407 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,480 Speaker 2: receives and then it grows and then it goes back, 408 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,840 Speaker 2: it's just it's a seasawze. It's just you know, a 409 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 2: teeter totter back and forth. 410 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,360 Speaker 5: But if you believe that it's receding, that means there's going. 411 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,679 Speaker 2: To be new shipping routes, including all kinds of variants 412 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,640 Speaker 2: of the Northwest Passage and the Northern Sea routes. That's 413 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:42,160 Speaker 2: going to shorten the transit between Asia, Europe, North America, 414 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:47,360 Speaker 2: and those routes all will either skirt or traverse Greenland's waters. 415 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 2: So control of Greenland means control not only of the 416 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 2: air and missile corridors that I mentioned earlier, but also 417 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 2: the future maritime commerce lanes that are going to absolutely 418 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 2: shap global trade flows and our naval strategy. I know 419 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:07,920 Speaker 2: that missiles and drones and everything seemed to be the 420 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 2: you know, the soup de jure, the really favor of 421 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:17,160 Speaker 2: the day, but navies are not going away, and strategic 422 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 2: navy security is something that, starting with Theodore Roosevelt, is 423 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 2: just as important today as it was when he was 424 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:28,280 Speaker 2: the Secretary of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. So 425 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 2: the question becomes not whether Greenland will matter, but when 426 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:41,159 Speaker 2: will we move decisively to shape Greenland's future. And that 427 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 2: clock has already started, started long before Donald Trump came 428 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:47,440 Speaker 2: on the scene. It's just that nobody ever verbalized and 429 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 2: nobody ever talked about it, because over the past say, 430 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 2: ten to fifteen years, China has quietly invested hundreds of 431 00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 2: billions of dollars across the Arctic, somewhere between four hundred 432 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,680 Speaker 2: and fifty to five hundred billion dollars just between twenty 433 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:11,360 Speaker 2: twelve and twenty seventeen alone. What was that spent on, Well, 434 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 2: a lot of it energy and mineral exploration, as you 435 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 2: would expect expect, but also projects that once amounted to 436 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 2: around twelve percent of Greenland's gross domestic product. Russia, meanwhile, 437 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:31,960 Speaker 2: is pouring resources into Arctic bases, icebreaker fleets, air and 438 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:36,480 Speaker 2: missile infrastructure. The Rooskies are treating the High North as 439 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,880 Speaker 2: their new theater for competition with NATO, And if they're 440 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 2: in competition with NATO, they're necessarily in competition with US. 441 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:47,000 Speaker 2: So while we have long operated from Greenland under a 442 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:52,119 Speaker 2: nineteen fifty one defense agreement, that arrangement assumes a strategic 443 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 2: environment that quite honestly just no longer matters, doesn't exist anymore, 444 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 2: and that leaves Greenland its political future, its current inhabitants, 445 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 2: the future of Greenland itself at a moment when rivals 446 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:13,640 Speaker 2: are just probing for leverage, we'd be naive, if you know, again, 447 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,920 Speaker 2: many people, this is a great point to make, a 448 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:24,480 Speaker 2: great time to make this point. When Trump first started 449 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:28,920 Speaker 2: espousing America first, everybody thought that that meant we're going 450 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 2: to withdraw, We're going to turn inward and we're not 451 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 2: going to look at the strategic world global order. Well, 452 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 2: you have to look at the strategic strategic global world 453 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:46,880 Speaker 2: order in order to protect our domestic national security interests, militarily, 454 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:52,640 Speaker 2: economically in terms of minerals and natural resources and everything else. 455 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 2: So I believe that having a conversation about Greenland and 456 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:02,400 Speaker 2: eventually annexing it, taking it over, reaching some new agreement 457 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,080 Speaker 2: with them, telling the days to shut up and sit down. 458 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:10,640 Speaker 2: I'm all for it, absolutely all for it. The world's 459 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:17,119 Speaker 2: changing so rapidly, and Americans had become some so dumb, 460 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:21,119 Speaker 2: fat and happy sitting on you know, an economy that 461 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,200 Speaker 2: you know has its ebbs and flows, but you know 462 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 2: with every sort of creature comfort that we you know, 463 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:28,399 Speaker 2: I saw. 464 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:30,800 Speaker 8: A shore. 465 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 2: It was like a Ted talk of sorts. It wasn't 466 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,200 Speaker 2: a Ted talk, but it was like a Tad talk. 467 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 2: Somebody giving a little perspective about all the modern amenities 468 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 2: that we have. Fifty years ago, many people in this 469 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 2: country didn't wake up in the morning and have the 470 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 2: ability to just take a shot a hot shower, let 471 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 2: alone a cold shower, no showers at all. Fifty years ago, 472 00:28:54,560 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 2: not that long ago. We've become so comfortable and so 473 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 2: fat that we don't think beyond our nose. We don't 474 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,560 Speaker 2: think about it beyond what's on television tonight. We don't 475 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:10,560 Speaker 2: think beyond what are we going, Where are we going 476 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 2: to deep, what are we going to do? What's the 477 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 2: next thing to go by? Meanwhile, I'm grateful that we 478 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:22,360 Speaker 2: have some people that are thinking strategically, they're thinking long term, 479 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 2: They see the big picture. Waiting for something to happen, 480 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 2: that's not a neutral position. 481 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:32,600 Speaker 5: Every year of. 482 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:37,000 Speaker 2: Delay allows the Chinese and the Russian footprint, particularly in 483 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:42,320 Speaker 2: the Arctic, to become deeper and deeper and deeper through energy, infrastructure, shipping, 484 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 2: and that's going to complicate any efforts that we might 485 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 2: undertake later on to try to secure Greenland or just 486 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,800 Speaker 2: put it in a different way. It will become even 487 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 2: more difficult to exclude hostile actors from the ports and 488 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 2: airspace that surround Greenland. So the moment to act is 489 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 2: right now. It's just that most Americans, including yours, truly 490 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 2: hadn't really thought about it. We got to do it 491 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:15,600 Speaker 2: now before Greenland's governance, their economy, their critical infrastructure becomes 492 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:19,400 Speaker 2: so intertwined with Beijing and Moscow that a Western course 493 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:27,280 Speaker 2: correction becomes too costly, too dangerous, and quite frankly, we 494 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:31,160 Speaker 2: probably can't do anything about it. So any serious conversation 495 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 2: about bringing Greenland under American control has got to begin 496 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 2: with the people who live there, which is a humongous 497 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:44,480 Speaker 2: amount of people. There's probably more people within, let me guess, 498 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 2: in a five square mile area of where I'm sitting 499 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:54,840 Speaker 2: right now, than inhabit Greenland. Fifty six thousand residents predominantly 500 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 2: into it, and they've repeatedly expressed attachment to their own 501 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:03,320 Speaker 2: identity holding does indeed show strong opposition to outright annexation 502 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:07,400 Speaker 2: has presently framed majorities say they don't want to become Americans. 503 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,959 Speaker 2: But the who in this debate is much larger than 504 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:17,720 Speaker 2: those fifty six thousand people. Denmark six million people. They 505 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 2: do have a formal sovereignty over a territory that they 506 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 2: cannot defend. They certainly can't defend it against the twenty 507 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:29,200 Speaker 2: first century Russia or Chinese power projection. Even though I 508 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 2: know NATA, Denmark said is a committed member of NATO. 509 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 2: It's one of our allies, the United States and Canada. 510 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,800 Speaker 2: We already rely on Greenland for integrated air missile maritime 511 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 2: defense of the North American homeland, and both face a 512 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 2: direct stake in whether that island remains firmly inside our jurisdiction, 513 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 2: our control, our influence, or we just remain ambiguous about it. 514 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:02,520 Speaker 2: And suddenly the entire Western security architecture succumbs to Chinese, Western, 515 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:08,760 Speaker 2: and Russian influences. Now Europe's major Natal states, well they've 516 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 2: declared that the archict in Greenland are central to NATO's future. Well, 517 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 2: so are we, the United States. So let's try to 518 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,040 Speaker 2: buy it. And let's keep trying that, and let's see 519 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:22,720 Speaker 2: if we can't buy it, if we can't reach some 520 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 2: sort of an agreement, because I think it's in our 521 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:30,040 Speaker 2: national security interests, and if you don't think so, you're 522 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 2: being either naive, ignorant, or both