00:00Will they take it? Will U.S.? If Greenland, if Denmark don't, as Kian was saying, take into account these concerns that the U.S. has, do you think the U.S. could go in militarily?
00:16Well, they haven't excluded it, which I think is fairly extraordinary that they don't exclude taking military action against an ally. I mean, that's unheard of in sort of international diplomats and international politics.
00:28If you talk about the U.S. concerns, I must confess that I have some difficult misunderstanding that.
00:36They talk about, when President Trump talks about sort of Russian and Chinese ships all over the place, that's nothing of the sort.
00:43No one has seen this particular Russian and Chinese ships except himself.
00:47But even if they were, it so happens that Denmark, accordingly Greenland, is part of NATO.
00:53We have a joint defense commitment, even Sweden, as a matter of fact, on paper.
00:57has a commitment to help with the defense of Greenland, if there were to be any threat that is credible.
01:04If there were a threat, if there were a security situation, you bring it into NATO, you bring in the forces that are necessary.
01:11At the moment, the assessment that is made by the U.S. military is obviously that there's no threat whatsoever.
01:16I don't think, as a matter of fact, that the U.S. has any protection, even for its own single remaining base there, against polar bears, perhaps.
01:27But apart from the polar bears, no one has seen any threat worthy of the name in Greenland.
01:34So, when Mr. Trump is speaking in these terms, I mean, he's in a fantasy world.
01:40I wonder who briefs him, or if anyone briefs him, or if he reads comics.
01:47I don't know, it's a difficult term to have.
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