Fiona Hill

And the Russians, you know, initially, you know, were just observing all of this, but then they got wind or they thought they'd got wind of some effort, perhaps to do something like we've just seen, but anywhere to have an idea of a U.S.

invasion that were deeply suspicious, you know, given the United States propensity in the past, you know, to move into Cuba and, you know, everywhere else.

And so they moved in a group of guys, you know, to help prop the duo up.

And, you know, that's kind of when, you know, also they picked up again on a little bit more of, you know, that's our zone.

This is your zone.

You know, this could be resolved.

And I was supposed to basically go to talk to them with others.

Of course, it wasn't just on my own to try to disentangle, you know, Venezuela and Ukraine said they've got nothing to do with each other.

But now we have Trump himself making all these kinds of connections.

And he's got Greenland in the mix, which did come up the first time around, but not with the Russians at all.

Well, Greenland seems to have come up with him in a discussion with Ron Lauder.

Estee Lauder.

Well, I did have a kind of an insane moment.

This is something in the moss that's great, you know, for face packs or something, you know, mud baths or, you know, you're saying precious minerals you could use, you know, in cosmetics.

You know, I was just, I was, you know, kind of flummoxed.

And it was Ambassador Bolton who's also spoken about it, John Bolton, who was the person who Trump cornered and basically said he wanted to buy Greenland.

How exactly the conversation came up with Ron Lauder, I honestly couldn't tell you.

But there was discussions at the time that China was expressing interest in mineral rights in places like Greenland and Iceland and Svalbard in Norway.

which hopefully is not on Trump's agenda, though he seems to have got Greenland and Iceland bundled up several times in his speech at Davos, which is worrying for the Icelanders as well.

Yeah.