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ready to go to Davos, Mark. He's going to see these foreign leaders. I mean, you obviously heard what the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee said. He comes from a point of view. There has been a defense of Greenland or going after Greenland, not militarily, but making a deal to get Greenland for a long time. Since Harry Truman in 1946, he actually offered them Barrow, Alaska in place of it, and they turned it down. And in 1967, biggest oil strike in world history. So they made a mistake then. They're making a mistake now. Donald Trump, the idea that he's doing this because of the Nobel Prize, as Senator Warner suggested, is absurd. I wrote my first column agreeing with Trump on Greenland in 2019. He was talking about this in his first term. And when you go back and you look at the NATO alliance, everyone said he was blowing up the Atlantic alliance in his first term when he said they have to spend 2% of their GDP or he won't defend them under Article 5. And it turned out that they came around and did what he wanted them to do. The way out of this is very simple. You go and you negotiate with the Danes on a new military treaty that allows us to do anything we want militarily, build any bases we have, put the golden dome in. You get a minerals deal similar to the one we have with Ukraine where we share the profits with the people of Greenland. And you have an agreement that there'll be no Chinese, no Russian presence. And then you let them have sovereignty, put their flag up, and they can pay for the health care, the universal health care, and the free college for all the 57,000 people in Greenland, and problem solved. Brett, we talk about it all the time. We talk about what is said, what is tweeted, versus what is happening. You know, the iceberg above the water as far as the attention and the iceberg below the water as far as what the ultimate goal and what's going to happen. Could that be what's happening here? I would think so, Brett. And remember this, if you're trying to understand Donald Trump, you can look at what he does most of the time as a never-ending quest for leverage in dealing with other people, other politicians, and other nations. And I think, as Mark suggests, that that's what's going on here. I don't think he's going to militarily attack Greenland. I think he'd love to buy it if the Danes would sell it to him. But I think the kind of agreement that Mark has just outlined is probably very much in prospect, at least the president would settle for that.
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