Burghart: If this goes wrong, US could leave NATO

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Shadow Cabinet Minister Alex Burghart says that it's "very important that your honest and firm with your friends", and that US threats to annex Greenland are "entirely wrong". Burghart also stresses the need for a "full meeting with NATO" to resolve points of contention with the US, warning that "if this goes wrong, we might end up in a situation where America leaves NATO".  Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00It's very important that you're honest and firm with your friends.

00:04And what the Conservative Party thinks is that what America is currently saying about Greenland is entirely wrong.

00:13But what really needs to be happening at the moment, and what I'm disappointed hasn't yet happened,

00:18is I think we need to have a full meeting of NATO because there's clearly a very serious point of contention.

00:24And if this goes wrong, we might end up in a situation where America leaves NATO and NATO effectively becomes redundant.

00:32And that will be incredibly dangerous because in those circumstances, it's very likely that Putin will win in Ukraine.

00:38And you will then, in quite short order, have a very large mobilized Russian army on the borders of Europe with no American backing.

00:48And that's scary.

00:49So let's get everybody around the table and let's start having serious conversations.

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