00:00I have tremendous respect for both the people of Greenland and the people of Denmark.
00:05Tremendous respect.
00:07But every NATO ally has an obligation to be able to defend their own territory.
00:12And the fact is, no nation or group of nations is in any position to be able to secure Greenland
00:19other than the United States.
00:22We're a great power, much greater than people even understand.
00:25I think they found that out two weeks ago in Venezuela.
00:30We saw this in World War Two, when Denmark fell to Germany after just six hours of fighting
00:37and was totally unable to defend either itself or Greenland.
00:42So the United States was then compelled.
00:46We did it.
00:46We felt an obligation to do it, to send our own forces to hold the Greenland territory
00:53and hold it.
00:54We did at great cost and expense.
00:57They didn't have a chance of getting on it.
01:00And they tried.
01:02Denmark knows that.
01:04We literally set up bases on Greenland for Denmark.
01:09We fought for Denmark.
01:10We weren't fighting for anyone else.
01:12We were fighting to save it for Denmark.
01:16Big, beautiful piece of ice.
01:18It's hard to call it land.
01:19It's a big piece of ice.
01:22But we saved Greenland and successfully prevented our enemies from gaining a foothold
01:27in our hemisphere.
01:29So we did it for ourselves also.
01:32And then after the war, which we won, we won it big without us.
01:38Right now, you'd all be speaking German and a little Japanese, perhaps.
01:42After the war, we gave Greenland back to Denmark.
01:49How stupid were we to do that?
01:52But we did it.
01:53But we gave it back.
01:55But how ungrateful are they now?
01:57So now our country and the world face much greater risks than it did ever before because
02:05of missiles, because of nuclear, because of weapons of warfare that I can't even talk
02:12about.
02:13Two weeks ago, they saw weapons that nobody ever heard of.
02:16They weren't able to fire one shot at us.
02:19They said, what happened?
02:20Everything was discombobulated.
02:22They said, we've got them in our sights.
02:25Press the trigger.
02:25And nothing happened.
02:26No anti-aircraft missiles went up.
02:32There was one that went up about 30 feet and crashed down right next to the people that
02:37sent it.
02:37They said, what the hell is going on?
02:40Those defensive systems were made by Russia and by China.
02:46So they're going to go back to the drawing boards, I guess.
02:50Greenland is a vast, almost entirely uninhabited and undeveloped territory.
02:56Sitting undefended in a key strategic location between the United States, Russia and China.
03:04That's exactly where it is, right smack in the middle.
03:08Wasn't important nearly when we gave it back.
03:11You know, when we gave it back, it wasn't the same as it is now.
03:14It's not important for any other reason, you know, to everyone talks about the minerals.
03:18There's so many places.
03:19There's no rare earth.
03:21No such thing as rare earth.
03:23There's rare processing.
03:24But there's so much rare earth.
03:28And this to get to this rare earth, you got to go through hundreds of feet of ice.
03:34That's not the reason we need it.
03:36We need it for strategic national security and international security.
03:42This enormous, unsecured island is actually part of North America on the northern frontier of the Western Hemisphere.
03:50That's our territory.
03:53It is therefore a core national security interest of the United States of America.
03:58And in fact, it's been our policy for hundreds of years to prevent outside threats from entering our hemisphere.
04:06And we've done it very successfully.
04:07We've never been stronger than we are now.
04:10That's why American presidents have sought to purchase Greenland for nearly two centuries.
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