00:00situation more clear than what's currently going on with Greenland. Would you like me to say a few
00:09words of Greenland? I was going to leave it out of the speech, but I thought I think I would have
00:16been reviewed very negatively. I have tremendous respect for both the people of Greenland and the
00:24people of Denmark. Tremendous respect. But every NATO ally has an obligation to be able to defend
00:31their own territory. And the fact is no nation or group of nations is in any position to be able to
00:38secure Greenland other than the United States. We're a great power, much greater than people even
00:45understand. I think they found that out two weeks ago in Venezuela. We saw this in World War II
00:53when Denmark fell to Germany after just six hours of fighting and was totally unable to defend either
01:01itself or Greenland. So the United States was then compelled. We did it. We felt an obligation to do
01:08it, to send our own forces to hold the Greenland territory and hold it. We did at great cost and
01:17expense. They didn't have a chance of getting on it and they tried. Denmark knows that. We literally
01:25set up bases on Greenland for Denmark. We fought for Denmark. We weren't fighting for anyone else. We
01:32were fighting to save it for Denmark. Big, beautiful piece of ice. It's hard to call it land. It's a big
01:40piece of ice. But we saved Greenland and successfully prevented our enemies from gaining a foothold
01:48in our hemisphere. So we did it for ourselves also.
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