e would only need to say, you think we're going to make a hundred billion dollars? No, we're going to make a trillion dollars.

So if you could create a picture where the US could get to a trillion dollars of economic benefit just for investing in Ukraine. It might take a while, but you throw the trillion in there and people's eyes open. Do you think that the US would employ military might if Russia tried to encroach on our trillion dollar economic opportunity? And the answer is of course we would. You might not like it. You know, a lot of people might disagree with it, but yes. Yes, you could guarantee that if we had a trillion dollars at stake that our richest people would say, "Uh, you know how I have a lot of influence over the government? Well, this is where you pay me back. This is where you go to war with Putin."

So I think there's some possibility that if we could tell a story where the US has a trillion dollars to benefit that Putin would know that attacking it had nothing to do with Europe and had nothing to do with NATO, that the US would unilaterally say, "Okay, we're going to fuck you up bad." So maybe we're getting close.

Well, apparently Trump has tapped, I like how they say tapped. He chose Louisiana governor as a special Greenland envoy. New York Post is reporting this. So in addition to being governor of Louisiana, this gentleman whose name I forgot to write down, governor of Louisiana will be the special envoy to Greenland. I guess we didn't have one. We had no special envoy. Now Denmark of course is objecting because they think, "Oh no, there's one more step toward you trying to strongarm us out of owning Greenland." To which I say, you know, Trump has already established that he's going to go strong on what looks to me like Monroe Doctrine times three. And if you're in our part of the world, you don't get to say no if we have a legitimate security interest. And do we have a legitimate security interest in having at least a military strong association with Greenland. And I would argue that if they don't give it to us, we're going to take it. Not right away, but that is what I like about Trump. He's very clear. You're either gonna work with us or we're gonna take it. And that's the Monroe Doctrine right there. In my opinion, that's the Monroe Doctrine.

So in the context of Trump leaning on Venezuela, that surely gives Denmark some pause because I don't think they expected our navy to surround Venezuela. Now even though Venezuela has nothing to do with Greenland, it suggests what level of military might Trump might employ if we have an economic slash security reason to do it. So it's got to rattle them. So I would say the current context is good for Trump. He's kind of taken down the verbal pressure. But it suddenly puts a little more pressure on them.

Now here's what the New York Post says. It says that behind closed doors, administration officials have mapped out a plan for the island, Greenland, to become independent and then enter into a compact of free association with the US, giving Washington a role in