00:21Well, we need Greenland for national security purposes.
00:25I've been told that for a long time, long before I even ran.
00:28I mean, people have been talking about it for a long time.
00:31You have approximately 45,000 people there.
00:34People really don't even know if Denmark has any legal right to it.
00:39But if they do, they should give it up because we need it for national security.
00:43That's for the free world.
00:44I'm talking about protecting the free world.
00:46Well, from a security standpoint, this is the argument that Trump has repeated the most.
00:51From a security standpoint, it doesn't quite make all that much sense because the U.S. argument is that it
01:00needs Greenland for national security.
01:02But the agreement in place, as well as the political goodwill that goes with it in the practical implementation of
01:13that agreement, means that the U.S. would probably be able to get more or less anything it needs in
01:21Greenland by just asking nicely.
01:28OK, thank you.
02:03First of all, I think it's very important to say that Greenland will never be part of
02:09America.
02:10Of course, we want respect.
02:12We want a strong partnership.
02:13We want to trade.
02:15We want a strong partnership on national security, of course.
02:19But we want it in mutual respect.
02:22We will never be for sale and we will never be Americans.
02:29Donald Trump has criticized the Danish government for not doing more of this itself on its own.
02:40And it comes back to this radar coverage concerning Russian planes over Greenland.
02:46And then it concerns submarine hunting, keeping track of Russian submarines in Greenlandic
02:54waters and in the so-called GYUK gap, the Greenland, Iceland, UK gap.
03:02And those two tasks are very expensive to solve.
03:10It necessitates a lot of investments.
03:13And I think actually the initial Danish reaction to this criticism from Donald Trump was to
03:20say, OK, the US wants Denmark to do more.
03:25Well, at least that's something that's a concrete problem that Denmark could try to solve.
03:31Right. So in 2025 alone, Denmark set aside 42 billion Danish crowns for enhanced security in Greenland.
03:45And a lot of that money was meant to be earmarked for situational awareness, which is these two things that
03:53I mentioned.
04:12There are other possible reasons for why Donald Trump may want Greenland minerals has also been mentioned, especially rare earth
04:21minerals.
04:24Now, Donald Trump himself said that this was less important than security.
04:29But nevertheless, let's let's look at the minerals and the rare earth minerals.
04:34The problem with resource extraction in Greenland is this.
04:40Greenland is a rich country in terms of natural resources.
04:43However, it is very expensive to extract it.
04:48So that means that even though that that there are a lot of resources there, a lot of resources to
04:53be had, it may not be profitable to ever extract a large quantity of those resources.
05:00And in practice, this has meant that the Greenland government has been very willing to try to bring in American
05:10companies to conduct searches and extraction of these resources.
05:17But as of yet, it has been met with fairly limited results when it comes to concrete projects, American companies
05:28have been very cautious in entering negotiations with Greenland simply because the business case just hasn't really been there in
05:39a lot of cases.
06:02We have a third possible argument, which is sort of an argument going more to a MAGA approach to the
06:11world.
06:15So this idea of territorial expansion and perhaps the idea that Trump has the possibility then of going down in
06:25history as one of the presidents that expanded the U.S.
06:30And I think this kind of motivator, I think both Copenhagen and Nuke, both the Greenlanders and Danes, they very
06:41much hope that this is not a prime motivator for Donald Trump.
06:45Because if it is, it is very, very hard to do anything about it in terms of reaching a compromise.
06:52How do you compromise with that, right?
06:54For it first, I mean I think that I should take the American president of the United States, when he
06:59says that he wants Greenland.
07:01But I would also be clear that if the USA chooses to attack a different NATO-land militarily, then it
07:07will be all the things up, including NATO's NATO and the security of the United States, which has been taken
07:13to the end of the 2nd century.
07:36The U.S. would be fully capable of handling the problem militarily.
07:42Obviously, if the U.S. was to invade Greenland, there would be little that Denmark or Greenland or indeed the
07:50European powers could do to stop the U.S.
07:54However, in terms of politics, the consequences would be enormous, really.
08:01The Danish prime minister recently mentioned that it would likely mean the end of NATO.
08:08And I would tend to agree.
08:10It is very clear that it is very clear that it is about the Grönländer and the Grönländer and the
08:18Königreich Dänemark,
08:20whose area of Grönland belongs in the UN-Charta.
08:41The future of Greenland is a decision for Greenland and for Denmark exclusively.
08:48It's their decision.
08:52Secondly, from a NATO context, the way I would frame it is that the western flank of NATO, which would
09:00include Greenland, the Arctic, is, given the evolving threat environment, is an area that we as NATO, Canada obviously, importantly,
09:11given our geography, need to invest more in.
09:13And this is a point that we've been making in recent years.
09:16So the Greenlanders, they don't want to be bought.
09:21They want to be independent.
09:23So in that sense, the U.S. would have to convince the Greenlanders that it would be a good idea
09:29to leave the kingdom and to establish some sort of relationship with the U.S.
09:37Well, I think our discussion should be with the actual people in Greenland, the Greenlanders.
09:42What are they looking for?
09:44What opportunities have they not gotten?
09:46Why haven't they gotten the protection that they actually deserve?
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