Fiona Hill

to be more involved.

Not like this, but, you know, could they?

Well, I think that that's the point, because the concern is that maybe somewhere down the line, Russia or China may want to get hold of Greenland.

The Danes turned off any of these, you know, interests by China in acquiring mineral rights, concessions or licenses.

Same in Svalbard, the Norwegians did that.

Iceland, you know, kind of didn't like the idea of, you know,

large numbers of Chinese appearing to want to build golf courses or invest in ports and things.

It became a bit overwhelming.

And although there is always Russian activity in the Arctic, I mean, it's their backyard.

Russia is an Arctic and sub-Arctic power.

Of course, they're there.

And World War II, we were really concerned about the Greenland-Iceland-UK gap.

There's not been any sign of a Chinese ship in the vicinity of Greenland for more than a decade.

Yeah.

And now we've actually probably making security in the Arctic, you know, even less reliable because, you know, this was already covered by NATO.

And the United States, just to be clear, when he talks about the Golden Dome as well, beyond minerals and, you know, of course, there's a lot of business interest in the minerals, of course, but...

but they're also unmineable for the near term because there's no infrastructure there.

And the United States might have concessions or licenses, but they haven't been able to actually turn these into actual mining activities.

There are lots of British and Canadian companies there, but some of them have sold out because of the difficulties of actually bringing any mines into fruition.

They've got all kinds of rules and regulations, ecological environment for good reason, very fragile ecosystems that are there.