David Frum

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.

And there were going to be French troops as well.

And there were, I think, some British observers.

So in January, the Allies were preparing for a NATO war against an American invasion of NATO territory.

And for the United States now to say, oh, our Allies are so ungrateful.

They were preparing for you to kill them.

And by the way, it's not clear.

This is one part of the story we don't know, is whether, in fact, the deterrence worked.

We don't know how advanced American plans were in January.

It's very possible that had the Danes not done that, that there would have been a seizure of Greenland territory and that the threat of not having runways and having to kill Danes did deter the United States.

We're waiting to find out that piece of the story.

I don't want to assert it as true or not true.

I don't know.

But that's the question you have is how close was the United States and did Denmark successfully deter the United States?