Ben Rhodes

If they don't stand up to him, and I think they finally figured this out,

if they don't stand up to him, he's going to take Greenland.

Like the status quo, we should all just name this.

Absent something changing, he will try to take Greenland in some fashion, which will shatter NATO and usher in this era of like imperial conquest and competition, right?

flag, you know?

And why not?

We have to take this stuff all seriously and literally to use an early Trump-ism analogy.

But look, so what could they do?

They need to – everybody needs, by the way, to just – we have to push back.

This guy is clearly out of control.

He's clearly the worst version of himself.

If I'm the Europeans, I'm sending actual troops to Greenland, right?

Like show that there is a military commitment to defend this territory.

I would be anteing up the tariffs, right?

I would be threatening to essentially invoke –

the coercion principle in the EU, right?

That this is the idea that if you are trying to coerce the EU territorially, which is exactly what he's trying to do, that you're essentially going to rug pull them from European markets, right?

It is.

And they don't have to necessarily use it.

But if you start to threaten these things, or you start to kind of pull from US investments, by the way, there would be some economic costs like we saw today.