Fiona Hill

No, I don't.

I think so.

Although, you know, there are small populations in these places and he does have ancestors that could have been Vikings.

I don't know.

No, I don't think so.

Maybe he had a common daddy, you know, somewhere way back, you know, at the time of Eric the Red or, you know, kind of remember the Vikings were the first actually, not just to get to, you know, kind of all kind of other points, you know, of the world, but also to get to North America.

You know, we have, you know, all of these Viking forests.

And that's, of course, first Europeans because we have the Inuit and other first peoples, you know, elsewhere, you know, keep getting ignored in all of this.

You know, Trump basically at that point just first formulating the idea that he'd like to have Greenland, which, of course, we then went through, you know, in a memo.

And I didn't finish it off because I actually left because I could see that I was about to become part of the problem, not the solution, getting back to Martin Indyk's warning.

You know, I left in the July of 2019 before all these other things start to unravel.

But when we had a draft of the memo, they just went through, you know, all the kind of history of the United States and Greenland, the rights of the United States had under the 1951 Security Treaty.

All of the things that people are reading about now, you know, were kind of prefigured there.

But, you know, the other point was Greenland wasn't for sale and the Greenlander people, Greenlandic people are not for sale either.

But there was then still that discussion about the possibility of Greenland's independence and these ideas of free association, shared sovereignty, all these kinds of things were all sort of percolating around.

Well, yes, but it's already dealt with, with NATO and with the security treaty.

I mean, the United States itself drew down its forces there in Greenland, you know, from...

thousands to a couple of hundred.

And one of the reasons that, you know, kind of there was so much interest there was because the United States has really been neglecting it, a potential interest.

And even the Icelanders and the Greenlanders, you know, had also been signaling to the U.S.