Ben Taub
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Yeah.
In fact, I went to Copenhagen in the course of my reporting to β once I'd learned details from the Greenland Policy Coordination Committee because β
Their work was retroactively classified.
And so once I sort of knew how it worked and who was on it and what it was aiming to do, I went to Copenhagen to essentially ask the Danes how they navigated that entire period while, you know, overtly dealing with the diplomatic situation with the United States and everyone's an ally and everything's good.
But knowing that Americans were covertly running operations against them.
And to my surprise, the Danish government was unaware of this and was learning it from me because the United States had taken such measures to essentially, I mean, it's really sad and difficult for me to be using these words, but because they were being duplicitous towards an ally, like that is what was happening.
They were working to subvert the kingdom of Denmark while pretending to be a strong ally.
In terms of what they promised to Greenlanders, it's pretty much uniformly one thing, and it's just money.
There's not really any other case that they're making that sticks.
You know, when Charlie Kirk was making the case himself after Greenlandic elections last year, he was saying that joining the United States would be nothing but upside for the great people of Greenland, he said.
But like Trump, he just focused on money.
And these four lines are just verbatim what the case was.
And it's saying the same thing over and over again.
He said, you will be wealthier.
You will be richer.
You will have the U.S.
dollar.
You will have more purchasing power.
And it's framed as if, you know, these are four different things because he's coming up with four different reasons.
But it's all the same thing.