David Frum

Well, the Denmark story is the most shocking and startling.

And this is a rumor that those of us who are interested in the Arctic, Canada, had been hearing since January.

But last week, it was confirmed by Danish news agencies with good sourcing to the Danish government and quotes on the record.

It had not been on the record before.

Greenland is, of course, Danish territory, part of the Kingdom of Denmark.

It has substantial autonomy.

And the Danes and Donald Trump in January really ramped up a threat to annex it by force.

And so the Danish plan was obviously Denmark cannot defend Greenland against the United States.

Their plan was to send their best soldiers to Greenland to die, to be killed.

And their hope was that if the United States shed Danish blood

It would so shame the United States, they hoped.

They had that sufficient confidence in the United States to believe that Americans are still capable of shame for murdering allies or killing allies, that it would stop the war.

But that was their plan.

Blow up the airfields because of the frozen conditions there.

You can't land off the airfields.

Right.

You'd have to use the airfields, blow up the airfields, and then have the soldiers there.

Exactly.

And then have the soldiers there.

And their mission was take casualties and shame the Americans.