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Speaker 1: Boston's Bulldozer operates seven days a week. The Kooner Report

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Speaker 1: Weekend edition WRKO, the Voice of Boston.

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Speaker 2: NATO now faces its greatest crisis in its history. Good morning,

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Speaker 2: Cooner contrary. Okay, my friends, as I speak to you now,

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Speaker 2: President Trump is about to go to DeVos, Switzerland, which

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Speaker 2: is a huge gathering of political and business leaders. And

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Speaker 2: there's no question the number one issue beyond anything else,

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Speaker 2: is now going to be the escalating crisis, diplomatic crisis,

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Speaker 2: political crisis, in many ways, geopolitical crisis over now the

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Speaker 2: issue of Greenland. President Trump now is essentially in a

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Speaker 2: diplomatic death battle with the European Canada, the globalists over

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Speaker 2: the future of whether Greenland will ever be part of

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Speaker 2: the United States. And I've got to tell you already,

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Speaker 2: no matter what happens, no matter how this ends, NATO

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Speaker 2: at a minimum, will never be the same. In fact,

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Speaker 2: we may be staring now at the possibility of the

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Speaker 2: end of the NATO Alliance as we have ever known it.

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Speaker 2: It has done tremendous damage to relations on both sides.

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Speaker 2: The Transatlantic Alliance is now straining, and it's now m

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Speaker 2: right there at the breaking point. So here is now

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Speaker 2: the absolute latest. As you know, President Trump has repeatedly

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Speaker 2: said that he wants full control over Greenland the way

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Speaker 2: we acquired Alaska or the Virgin Islands, which ironically we

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Speaker 2: bought from Denmark in nineteen seventeen. He would like to

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Speaker 2: do the exact same thing regarding the semi autonomous Arctic island,

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Speaker 2: which is the largest island in the world. Of Greenland,

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Speaker 2: which is technically owned and controlled by Denmark, it's essentially

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Speaker 2: an imperial relationship. The Danes have occupied Greenland. Most Greenlanders

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Speaker 2: would like to be independent. They haven't yet agreed on

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Speaker 2: a process to hold a national referendum or plebiscite for

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Speaker 2: them to declare their independence. But essentially Greenland is a

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Speaker 2: territory of Denmark, semi autonomous, fifty six to fifty seven

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Speaker 2: thousand people, an Arctic island that they eventually would like

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Speaker 2: to become independent. President Trump is saying, yes, we want

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Speaker 2: Greenland to find and fulfill its own destiny, but we

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Speaker 2: believe its destiny lies in North America and in particular

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Speaker 2: in the United States. And President Trump now has said

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Speaker 2: we need Greenland. We need Greenland essentially for four key reasons.

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Speaker 2: Number one, it is the keystone of our entire security

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Speaker 2: in the North Atlantic. Greenland possesses a very strategic location.

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Speaker 2: It is the biggest island between US and Russia, submarine lanes,

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Speaker 2: shipping lanes for military purposes, Greenland is very very important.

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Speaker 2: It is strategic. More So, President Trump is determined and

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Speaker 2: this is part of his national security strategy, and the

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Speaker 2: media is not telling you any of this. To build

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Speaker 2: a Golden Dome an intercontinental Western hemispheric missile defense shield system,

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Speaker 2: the keystone of this North American hemispheric defense shield, which

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Speaker 2: would make US militarily impregnable from an attack from either

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Speaker 2: China or Russia, depends upon us having Greenland for all

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Speaker 2: sorts of reasons, for radar, for sensors to tell us

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Speaker 2: about incoming potential Russian missiles, the ability and a forward

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Speaker 2: operating way to shoot down these missiles. So Greenland for

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Speaker 2: our missile defense shield molto importante, Okay, indispensable. But there

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Speaker 2: are two other reasons. Oil and rare earth minerals. Although

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Speaker 2: most of Greenland is frozen tundra in ninety eight percent

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Speaker 2: of it. Now, I just want you to think about

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Speaker 2: this for a second. It is an island, the biggest

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Speaker 2: island in the world. It's the size of Mexico. Think

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Speaker 2: of Mexico on a map. That's the size of Greenland, Okay,

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Speaker 2: or the size of Saudi Arabia. So it's got vast territory,

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Speaker 2: but most of it, because it is so freaking cold,

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Speaker 2: is uninhabitable. Ninety eight percent of Greenland. Nobody lives there, nobody,

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Speaker 2: and they haven't lived there for hundreds and hundreds of years.

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Speaker 2: But it's not above the ground that is interesting Trump,

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Speaker 2: It's what's underneath the ground, and that is the vast

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Speaker 2: reserves of rare earth minerals that in the twenty first

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Speaker 2: century you need for everything from computer chips to building computers, laptops, iPhones,

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Speaker 2: cell phones, military components, electronics, you name it. China wants

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Speaker 2: to have a near global monopoly on these rare earth minerals.

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Speaker 2: They have a lot of rare earth themselves, and they're

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Speaker 2: trying to buy up places like Afghanistan, which has a

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Speaker 2: lot of rare earth. We need to keep up with China,

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Speaker 2: and so Trump is saying, we need Greenland for our

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Speaker 2: economy and above all, for our national security. And then

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Speaker 2: there is the question of dominance in the Arctic. Russia

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Speaker 2: and China especially Russia, now claim that the Arctic is theirs,

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Speaker 2: their sphere of interest, their sphere of influence. Underneath the

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Speaker 2: Arctic are now almost unlimited reserves of oil and natural gas.

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Speaker 2: And so to counter the rise of Russia and China

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Speaker 2: for Arctic security, Arctic dominance, and all of the oil

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Speaker 2: and gas that there is underneath, Trump is saying, we

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Speaker 2: can only counter Russia in particular and China obviously if

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Speaker 2: we control Greenland. By controlling Greenland, we can more effectively

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Speaker 2: now push back the Russians, push back the Chinese. And

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Speaker 2: as Trump is now saying over and over, it's been

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Speaker 2: about forty eight hours now where he's been on true

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Speaker 2: social saying, this is fundamental, vital to European security, to

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Speaker 2: North Atlantic security, and global security. You want us to

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Speaker 2: really push off the Russians and the Chinese, we have

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Speaker 2: to have Greenland. Greenland is the gateway to the Arctic.

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Speaker 2: Who controls Greenland ultimately controls the Arctic. Who controls the

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Speaker 2: Arctic controls all of those rare earth minerals and the

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Speaker 2: deep reserves of oil and natural gas. So the geopolitical

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Speaker 2: stakes are massive, massive. This is now becoming almost a

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Speaker 2: defining issue in the world. Now, you would think this

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Speaker 2: should be a straightforward, a commercial arrangement. We go to

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Speaker 2: the Danes who basically own Greenland and say, let's make

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Speaker 2: a deal. Let's make a deal. How much how much?

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Speaker 2: And there you know, Trump has said I'm willing to

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Speaker 2: go five hundred thousand per citizen in Greenland. Remember's fifty

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Speaker 2: six fifty seven thousand people, all the way up to

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Speaker 2: one million per resident in Greenland. In other words, we'll

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Speaker 2: make the millionaires and we're going to fully commit to

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Speaker 2: the development of the island. We're talking about massive investment.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about massive mining, We're talking about bringing in hotels,

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Speaker 2: We're talking about, you know, literally transforming Greenland into the

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Speaker 2: Alaska of the North Atlantic. The Europeans are saying no

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Speaker 2: under any conditions. They don't care whether Trump wants to

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Speaker 2: buy it, purchase it. They're claiming he wants to militarily

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Speaker 2: potentially annex it. Whatever it is, doesn't matter how it's done.

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Speaker 2: The EU, the Europeans and Canada have now drawn a

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Speaker 2: line in the ice saying they will never accept American

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Speaker 2: occupation or the American takeover or the American purchase of Greenland.

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Speaker 2: Greenland they say will never be ours. And on top

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Speaker 2: of that, the far left wing government, which is very

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Speaker 2: anti American in Denmark, is now saying, you will never

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Speaker 2: sell you Greenland, you will never buy Greenland, we will

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Speaker 2: never allow you to acquire Greenland. And so over the

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Speaker 2: last week, Denmark now is surging troops into Greenland. Remember,

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Speaker 2: Denmark is a member of NATO. European powers Germany, France, Britain, Sweden, Norway,

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Speaker 2: the Netherlands. They have now sent troops into Greenland, not

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Speaker 2: in big numbers, but as a trip wire in which

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Speaker 2: the message is now clear that if Trump seeks to

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Speaker 2: make a move on Greenland, or if he seeks to

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Speaker 2: try to acquire or buy Greenland, then Trump will be

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Speaker 2: at war with NATO. They are now trying to blackmail

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Speaker 2: the United States into backing off from our ambition and

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Speaker 2: Trump's ambition to acquire Greenland. Trump now is livid, saying,

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Speaker 2: you dare to threaten war against US, you dare to

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Speaker 2: going to impose a massive tariff on these eight European countries,

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Speaker 2: And now we are heading towards a potential trade war,

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Speaker 2: a massive trade war between the United States and the

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Speaker 2: EU should we acquire Greenland.

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