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Greenland is going to continue to be a
flash point. Trump is saying up and down
that we are going to control Greenland.
And now that he's got control of
Venezuela, this is where I expect people
know that he's willing to make a move.
This is going to change the way that
people approach Trump. And that's one of
the things that's got most of Europe
telling him to back off. Uh but Trump
has repeatedly stated that the United
States needs to control Greenland for
national security reasons. and he said
directly to reporters, Greenland is
covered with Russian and Chinese ships
all over the place and we need Greenland
from the standpoint of national security
and Denmark, this is still part of the
quote and Denmark is not going to be
able to do it. So that's end quote.
Needless to say, Denmark has vehement
disagreement with that statement. They
believe that they're that nobody needs
anything more that they've been doing
this for a very long time. They've got
it completely under control. But Trump
is not budging on this one and is not
going to rule out using military
intervention, which is wild. Multiple
people from the White House have backed
that up. Yesterday, White House press
secretary Caroline Levitt said in a
statement, and I quote, "President Trump
has made it well known that acquiring
Greenland is a national security
priority of the United States. The
president and his team are discussing a
range of options to pursue this
important foreign policy goal. And of
course, utilizing the US military is
always an option at the
commander-in-chief's disposal. Talk
about bullying. That's the end of the
quote. All right. White House Deputy
Chief of Staff Steven Miller, who's not
known for his restraint, echoed the
sentiment, asserting the US's
entitlement to Greenland. I hate that,
but nonetheless, he did it. and dismiss
the possibility of military opposition.
Not that we wouldn't do something
militarily aggressive, but that we
wouldn't get any opposition if the US
does decide to be aggressive. He said,
and I quote, "Nobody's going to fight
the United States military over the
future of Greenland." The way that I'm
reading that is him saying like, "Yeah,
we might go in there and no one is going
to do about
>> who going to stop me, period."
>> Yeah. So now it's unclear how serious
Trump is actually getting about being
aggressive versus just trying to bully
Denmark off the X, which is certainly
his style, but all of the smacktalking
has prompted a stern joint statement,
which you're going to see more and more
of these European joint statements from
seven major powers. Denmark's Met,
Frederickson, that's my best guess,
France's Macron, Germany's MS, UK's
Starmer, plus Italy, Poland, and Spain.
They all declared, "These are universal
principles. Sovereignty, territorial
integrity, inviability of borders, and
we will not stop defending them." End
quote. Yeah, we'll see. I mean, look,
all of this is rhetoric. I'm not
expecting some huge blow up over
Greenland, but this is where like you
just start bothering enough people with
each one of these moves. You make
someone inside of the different
countries your enemy and you start
stacking up enough enemies and
eventually people will do things even
that go against their best interest
because they feel some type of way.
Trump should not act as if you can just
bully bully bully. He's going to have to
have some carrots. Now the carrots are
always economic. So, if you've got a way
to either use the Venezuelan crude oil
to lower the costs in across Europe for
energy, okay, maybe. Listen, I'm going
to be slapping you around in Greenland,
but like we're going to really back you
over here.
>> I'm seeing a lot of comments in the
chat. My general consensus is that like
Europe don't want these problems. Y'all
haven't fought a real world since the
40s. Y'all can't even take care of your
own stuff. We're still the number one
military. We got it. Now, I don't want
this to just be American hubris, but is
it really like nobody can stop America
and we're just uh we're going to keep
expanding until we meet a sustainable
force that can stop us?
>> Yes, certainly right now. But remember,
it's there are two things that will
restrain a nation. Thing number one is
just military might. You run into
another military. We're not going to go
>> roll up on China. We know that that
would be suicide.
>> But yeah, but like speaking of
Greenland, I don't see anybody on the
Greenland side rolling up with a tank
trying to meet us. Correct. And I think
Stephen Miller is right about that and
we'll get to that in a second. The
second thing is the own internal
conscience of your country. So your
country has a culture. It has a value
system and it will stop you from
overstepping that value system. That's
the thing that's going to keep us in
check. So it becomes a question of how
much is Trump willing to ignore the
populace or how much is the populace
behind him. Maybe he can sell it and
everybody's like, "Yeah, let's go get
Greenland." Okay. So those are the two
forces that can restrain you. Now, in
terms of him going into Greenland, if
he's really that serious and really is
that concerned about something, uh,
because there you can look at maps and
understand why Greenland really is so
important. If you believe that Russia is
a major problem for you, if you believe
that Russia and China, yeah, if you can
look at your screens, uh, if you believe
that Russia and China are pairing up
against you, that any nuclear potential
nuclear strike coming out of Russia
would go directly over Greenland, and so
you want the ability to intercept or
shut it down or whatever, uh, or you're
just worried about the because I think
there's enough melting going on that
you're actually at some point going to
be able to take ships like through a
lane there. I have not researched that.
Like I'm purely at the headline level,
but people were saying that like Chinese
and Russian ships might have a way
that's faster than one of the other
routes that you can take because of
melting. If that ends up being true, and
I don't know that it will, but if it
ends up being true and you're trying to
protect yourself, make sure that you can
control those lanes, I get why you get
on a hobby horse about Greenland and you
get really serious about taking back
control of the Panama Canal and taking
control of this area in Denmark. Uh,
sorry, Greenland controlled by Denmark.
So, I get it. And if you do it,
certainly Europe isn't going to make
that the flash point and push back
militarily, but you break NATO at that
point. You go, "Hey, NATO is this
alliance where we all agree Russia is a
problem and we're all going to protect
each other should something bad happen."
Well, if if you've got like a
neighborhood watch and you're like,
"Hey, we're good. We're going to keep
everybody out." And then you break into
your neighbor's house and take they're
going to be like, "What the like you ran
the neighborhood watch like, bro, like
this is dead now. We can't trust you."
And so Trump uh he's acting like he
doesn't get it. I think he gets it. I
think he knows. Certainly he's going to
have people around him that know. So
that's one of those things. It's like
would anything happen immediately if you
break NATO? No. Will it play out over
five or 10 years? Possibly. And that's
where like breaking your allies now like
just not a wise idea. Let's say he's
right. Run the thought experiment. Back
yourself into the difficult corner. If
you, dear listener, were to see all the
information and you, dear listener, walk
away going, "Oh, we really do have to
have Greenland." Then it's like, what do
you do? Do you run the risk that, "Okay,
I'm going to alienate myself. I'm going
to be isolated, but I'm still the
strongest military on planet Earth. I am
still first or second largest economy.
I'm certainly not without a lot of
power. I know China's in trouble. China
is pumping money into their economy as
if it were COVID. It's wild. So, they're
in an economically fragile position. So,
it's like, you know, that it's not like
they can just go guns blazing either.
So, it's like you can sort of set them
aside. Pure competitor going to have to
deal with them in a minute, but for
right now, I just I know I've got to
protect myself from a Russia China
alliance. I know that these shipping
lanes are opening. Remember, this is a
hypothetical, but I know that these
shipping lanes are opening, so I have to
be very careful. I've got to lock this
down. I know that if they were going to
launch a nuclear strike, which feels
maybe increasingly likely, I've got to
control that airspace to do that. I've
got to control Greenland. I'm looking at
Europe and I'm like, these wits haven't
done anything to beef up the defenses
there in god knows how long. We pay for
most of their defenses anyway. I do not
trust Denmark with like a key strategic
defensive area. Now remember in this
thought experiment you dear listener
agree with all of this. Then what do you
do? Now in that thought experiment we
might say it's tough because I put
myself in a weakened position and down
the road that may come back to bite me
in the but I have a today problem and
I've got to address my today problem. So
I can see Trump building a mental model
where that's the truth and he feels like
he has to do this. Now I don't have
enough information to believe that
that's true. So for me I'm like what are
you doing? This is crazy talk. Like
you've got enough cover story with China
on the Venezuela because you had a
dictator that was inviting him in.
Denmark is your ally, your long-standing
ally. So, bro, go to them and be like,
"Hey, we want to put some joint forces
here. I don't have to like control
everything in name. I can just be like,
listen, we want to help you, Denmark. We
have a reason. Let's put all these
troops here. Let's make sure that our
guys are like in charge of how we're
running the watch mechanisms. Let's
build whatever we need to build. But
it's yours. Like we love you guys. You
know, ally ally ally. Sure. At any time,
you know, later you can play this card
of I'm militarily going to take you
over.
So if you know you've got that card, why
be a right out of the gate? Like
seduction, boys and girls. But who am I
kidding, Drew? This is the guy that when
he flirts with a chick, he grabs him in
the It's wild. And you were
seeing this manifest like he's grabbing
Greenland by the That's what's happening
right now.
>> Please clip that. Please, please. I
never wanted something clipped more.
Please,
>> can we please buy a bottle of wine?
Okay, let's slow this down.
>> Take me out to dinner first.
>> You know what I mean? Like, listen,
she's telling you she's into you. You
don't have to open with that move. This
is so wild. So, yeah. I mean, there are
better ways to do this. We already have
bases on Greenland though. So that's
what's like I I think what is being told
is different than the underlying story.
So I do think that there is something in
the Manila envelope that if they slid
across this desk I'll be like, "Yep, we
need Greenland. We need to go right
now." But if you're just telling me it's
for national security, we have two bases
there already. We have the most bases in
any country. We have bases in South
America. We have bases in Europe. We
have bases in Japan. We have bases
around all the people that even might
think about doing something to America.
We even have a whole nation state in
Israel that like So we have every proxy
we can need. So to bang your drum about
Greenland, similar to Venezuela. Oh,
he's a dictator. He's a dictator. He's a
dictator. Oh yeah, we got 30 billions of
oil. So I'm sure with Greenland's going
to be the same things. National
security. National security. Oh, we got
a real earth deal for the next 40 years.
Like there's definitely something else
that we're not being shown, that's not
being talked about that is fueling this
motivation cuz I don't buy the whole
security guarantee thing.
>> Well, so anytime you can advantage
yourself economically, that's going to
sweeten the pot for sure. And so if
Trump is looking at my tariffs might be
going away and I've got to by midterms,
I've got to have made things better for
the American people. I mean, it's
certainly possible that it's just like,
okay, I've got a China problem. Uh, they
can choke me out from a rare earth
mineral perspective. I need to solve
that. He says he's already solved it.
Maybe he has, maybe he hasn't. That's
part of it. Oil helps a little bit. I
mean, so it's possible that that's
playing a bigger role in his
decision-making than I think, but I
really when I look at this and I go,
this is just a president who's trying to
increase America from an economic
position going in and doing a strike on
Venezuela and kidnapping their um
dictator when you know that like there
are now uh gangs roving the streets that
are pro Maduro that are like pulling
people over and checking to see if
they've posted anything on social media
that's proTrump. So it's like you know
that overseeing all of that long term is
going to just be filled with question
marks. So if you're only doing it for
that reason like Jesus Christ this would
be the dumbest way. Go back to drill
baby drill. Like go back to building
better alliances in the Middle East. All
of that would make sense. But going into
a hostile nation and trying to take them
over trying to like coup the government.
What now when you go they were allowing
China in my backyard. Yeah. to
understand how ferociously
one country will respond when they
believe that their adversary is posting
up uh an advantage in your backyard.
America walked America and Russia walked
the entire world to the brink of nuclear
annihilation because Russia moved
weapons into Cuba and America was like,
"We will legitimately nuke you. You have
to get them the out." Like that's the
you you push a nation into believing
that it has an existential threat on its
doorstep. Once I go that's the mental
model that his adviserss have. Like
forget remember Trump's not a guy
sitting alone in a room being like we
should invade Venezuela. He's surrounded
by a bunch of people that are like bro
let me walk you through the history. Let
me show you how this stuff plays out.
Let me tell you about the Monroe
doctrine. Right? So this is when you
plug it into that boom it clicks into
place and it's like oh the oil's a
sweetener. Oh, being able to pay back
our companies who I'm sure have been
barking at every president since the 70s
about give me mying money back. All of
those are sweeteners for sure. Like it's
not like that stuff is lost on him. But
I'm just saying you don't make a move
this potentially risky because listen,
between now and the midterms, Venezuela
could go so wrong. Like anybody that's
clapping like a seal and is like, "Oh,
Venezuela's settled." What? Like right
now, Maduro's number two is in position
and you may have to coup her if she gets
out of pocket. So it's like if the US
citizen watches you keep sending like
these lightning strikes to do like the
crazy snatch them in the middle of the
night exercises,
>> they are going to get increasingly
nervous. So this has to start paying
off. It has to pay off quickly. It could
go wrong a thousand different ways. So
if it was just about the money, there's
just easier ways to make money.