Daniel Immerwahr
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And it was actually very bizarre when in his first term, Trump started talking about Greenland.
He's been talking about it for years.
It almost seemed like a joke when you first heard it.
It seemed like a joke.
I mean, it was sort of, is he just testing us?
Is he just trying to say, you know, transgressive things?
But it also seemed frustrating because you think, Trump, what do you want?
You want to land some planes in Greenland?
You want to buy minerals from Greenland?
You can do that.
It's open for business.
Like, what do you need to actually colonize this space for?
No, you thought it was a trolling situation.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.
But after Venezuela, how can you possibly think that's a trolling situation?
And it seems to me, though, the cost of what's going on, there are many costs to it.
If I'm China, I look at what's going on and I say, oh, okay, my sphere of influence is obvious.
90 miles off my coast, I have Taiwan.