and he was asked if the US would use military to take Greenland. Now what would have been the answer to that six months ago? If he had been asked, will we use the military to conquer Greenland? I feel like he would have said something like, we don't need to do that because we can find a way to avoid that. But you know it's very important critically. We're definitely going to do something to make sure that we're not vulnerable there. But no boots on the ground six months ago.

How did he answer it yesterday? He said, quote, "Nobody is going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland." That sounds like they've moved from wanting to deciding. It seems to me that if Trump ends up being super successful, as I think he might be in Venezuela, that the idea of sending in the military is definitely on the table.

Now obviously Greenland would not have any way to respond, right? They don't have a military. Denmark doesn't have really a way to project force over here in any meaningful way. So one assumes that that would not happen until the CIA had enough insight or control over the locals that they would know for sure that if the military went in, they would step aside.

And further, Steve Miller says, "The real question is what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland?" Oh, here we go. Here's a good reframe. What is the basis of their territorial claim? What is the basis of having Greenland as a colony of Denmark? He said, "The United States is the power of NATO. For the United States to secure the Arctic region to protect and defend NATO, this is so good, and NATO interests, obviously, Greenland should be part of the United States."

So we have definitely moved from wanting Greenland to deciding we're going to take it and we're going to use our military to do it if necessary. Now obviously there would be lots and lots of work before anything like that happened to either make it easy to take over or to find a way that we didn't need to. So what would Denmark do if we told them, "Hey, Denmark, on Tuesday we're going to surge the military into Greenland. We're going to annex it. And you're going to stand aside." What would they do? They would complain to whom? Other people would complain. But how much impact would that have? Would the UN say, "Stop doing that?" And if they did, we might say, "We're the only power that the UN has. Step aside."

And I think that Trump pushing the Monroe Doctrine is so far, I think this could be more popular than not popular. The door is wide open. To me it seems like a done deal that before the end of Trump's term we will have functional control of Greenland and people will hate it at first and they'll say oh authoritarian and they will eventually say, here's a reframe too, almost nobody lives on a place that was once uninhabited by anybody if you look at the history of just about every country. It's about somebody had that land and then somebody took it from them.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is the end of my prepared remarks. I'm going to talk privately to the good people of Locals and in 30 seconds we'll be private. I want to thank you again. Oh, let me give you a specific thank you. I hope you're aware that your existence and the love and attention that you give me is absolutely irreplaceable and I'm very blessed and I appreciate you more than you could ever know. So if it seems like I'm acting selfishly sometimes, well, maybe I am because I enjoy this experience of being useful if I can more than anything I like. So thank you. Thank you. And we'll see you again tomorrow.

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