old his aides to give him an updated plan for acquiring Greenland, but Rubio says the plan is to buy it. So that seems like the right way to go, doesn't it? To at first make a legitimate effort to buy it. But your negotiation for that would be strong under the condition that you're definitely going to take it by force if you have to.

Now that people believe, and I'm sure they do, that Trump would just march the army in and take it if they can't make a deal to sell it, that puts them in a pretty strong negotiating position. Now, you have to assume of course that Denmark and Greenland would vigorously object to handing over this property. But I would say the new Monroe Doctrine supports Trump doing it, especially since he already said some version of "who's going to stop him?"

And as we saw Eric Weinstein say recently, that international law probably doesn't even exist. That what is really happening is whoever has the power exercises the power and then we put some nice layer of narrative on top of it like, "Oh we had an international reason to do it. Oh Greenland sold some fentanyl to a dog." Yeah, we'll make up something. But I would say this is yet again my example of wanting versus deciding. Trump has clearly moved out of the wanting phase and he's into the deciding phase and