00:00Well, for more reaction, earlier I spoke to Lars Christian Brask, who's a Danish member of parliament
00:06and chairman of the Danish delegation to the Nordic Council, which oversees cooperation between parliaments in the region.
00:13Well, there's certainly fear, and especially in Greenland, but there's also a determination that this shouldn't happen.
00:22We should be a united unit in the EU. Maybe NATO will be involved.
00:30We are shocked because it is not more than four days ago that we sat down with,
00:36we being our foreign minister from Denmark and from Greenland, sat down with the foreign minister of the U.S.
00:45and the vice president of the U.S.
00:46And the outcome of that meeting was to create a high-level working group where it was going to be discussed what sort of options were ahead.
01:00And then less than four days after that, we realized that that is not on the table.
01:08It is possession, it's ownership, it's full ownership, it's complete and total ownership of Greenland.
01:17Indeed, and now we have the U.S. president threatening tariffs on the European NATO allies
01:24who have sent some troops to support Denmark in Greenland.
01:28Donald Trump saying that potentially 10% tariffs rising to 25% will be levied on those countries
01:34until a complete and total deal to purchase Greenland is agreed.
01:40How has this threat of tariffs changed the game now with your allies?
01:45Well, we have been an ally of the U.S. in the last two big wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
01:55We have lost more people per population than any country.
01:59We regarded ourselves as a friend of the U.S.
02:03We saw we were a close ally and then being exposed to this kind of extortion and blackmail is sort of, you know, shocking.
02:17Indeed.
02:18And just how united a response can the European Union and the U.K. present at this moment?
02:26We've had the French president Emmanuel Macron saying that the threat of tariffs is unacceptable.
02:30Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, saying that it is completely wrong.
02:35Do you think that the EU can stand together and respond to the United States?
02:39And would you even say that the U.S. should now be considered an adversary?
02:46An adversary is a good British word.
02:49It is strong enough, but it is also soft enough so that it doesn't create visions of war and people invading the country.
03:01So I think the EU can stand together.
03:06I feel that we have a very strong bond and a united unity.
03:12So I'm quite certain that that is going to be no problem.
03:19And there's also some tools in the EU work box that can be used.
03:25And I'm pretty sure that's being handed out now when the top people from the EU countries are meeting right now, actually.
03:37Is it just, though, not the case to face reality now and that Greenland will indeed need to be sold to the United States and that a deal is simply going to have to be reached?
03:52Because surely a military confrontation between Denmark and its European NATO allies is unthinkable.
03:59Yeah, it is unthinkable.
04:06And that's why you're going to see the Congress stepping in.
04:11The U.S. is not a one man show.
04:15It's not run by the president alone.
04:17There's checks and balances.
04:19You have the Congress with the House and the Senate.
04:21And I'm pretty sure before we even get close to an invasion war, that will have been stopped by Congress.
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