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There's reasons to control these shipping lanes in the Arctic that are going to open up as more and more of the ice melts.

Shout out to climate change.

Shout out to opening the shipping lanes up there.

But it is all there.

There's a really good, I've watched it.

Twice actually.

It's funny.

I watched it last year and I watched it again recently, but there's a really good Wendover video about this.

Yeah.

About like the, uh, basically the scale of like military capabilities in the area from Russia and what the U S has available to them and like why the U S wants to build military capabilities in

in Greenland.

I think what you're saying is that a lot of the ways they would want to compete militarily or develop things militarily could just be done by saying, hey, Denmark, can we build this out in Greenland?

And I think it's going, I think this is doing this insane thing that you're talking about.

It's like you're slowly losing one of your superpowers, which is these deep ties and alliances to like the rest of the world that you've developed over so long.

And now we're in a place where in December, Denmark officially labeled the US as like a potential security threat.

Like as a country.

And I also just, so I really wanted to talk to people who live in Greenland before this episode.

And unfortunately, the ways I was trying to contact people, I hadn't get ahold of anybody in time.

I was able to contact a handful of Danish people that I'm friends with, one of whom has like closer ties to family in Greenland, but I haven't interviewed anybody who lives in Greenland yet.

But it's interesting hearing like the Danish perspective on this, which is that there's this increasing, like there's always been like a ha ha funny, like, look what America is up to attitude, especially from young people, but from Danes broadly there.