00:00Isn't there the risk that if Trump says, okay, this is our quadrant, we're going to take
00:04care of our quadrant and expand our influence into these two different territories, then
00:11that's going to encourage Russia to say, well, okay, so my quadrant is in Central Europe,
00:17so I will keep on expanding in Ukraine or Georgia, et cetera, and then, of course, China
00:22with Taiwan, that it's – so we all divide up our world in three different influences.
00:29It is a false analogy to equate what the Russians are doing in Ukraine and what China wants
00:33to do in Taiwan and U.S. policy.
00:36For the simple reason it's the objectives and the means and methods are very different.
00:41The United States is not out to create hard spheres of influence.
00:43We are not recreating the Cold War.
00:45We're going to have one big red circle and that's all our stuff, and the other guy
00:48is going to have a big blue circle.
00:49The world can't be divided that way.
00:52Trump is way so experienced that he knows it's not true.
00:56On the other hand, you cannot allow your legitimate national security interest to be
01:02compromised by people who are out to get you.
01:08There is a perfect analogy between European concern about Ukraine, not just Ukraine, but
01:14where Putin might go after that as directly threatening their security, as there is about
01:19Greenland.
01:20Greenland has only been vital to U.S. interests since World War I.
01:26Ironically, because you hear a lot of Europeans get very nervous about this, but why is Greenland
01:32important to us?
01:33It's because Europe is important to us, because the transatlantic crossing is the lily pads
01:40that tie the transatlantic crossing together, which are literally non-negotiable, are Greenland
01:44and Iceland.
01:45It's always been that way.
01:47During World War II, if we'd lost Greenland and Iceland, we could not have won the Battle
01:51of the Atlantic.
01:53It was that way when the Cold War ended.
01:54It was that way in the 1990s.
01:57We never talked about it, and we never did much about it, because we never saw a credible
02:02threat.
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