Fiona Hill

And he's, you know, basically frightened the bejesus out of the Greenlanders who are basically saying, look, we're people.

We're not for sale here.

Do you want to enslave us?

I mean, this is, you know, creating a pretty nasty set of reverberations for the United States, you know, here, there and everywhere.

It is remarkable.

And, you know, that's kind of a speech if they would have dared make it.

But, you know, former vassal states of the Soviet Union or, you know, neighbors of Russia would make if they wanted.

And that's coming from Canada, you know, which along with Denmark, the closest possible, you know, in the UK as well, of course, you know, closest possible friend and ally of the United States.

And 80% of Canadian trade, the bulk of the population, are intertwined with the United States.

And Mark Carney is saying, no, not anymore.

And he means it.

It obviously means it.

Yeah, I see a real tragedy here for the United States.

You know, Trump and others are absolutely right that NATO basically was too much dependent on the United States, was being carried by the United States, no question about it.

And it was Barack Obama, you know, in 2014, who...

insisted on the 2% of GDP spending, not Trump, but you know, nobody did anything really in that interim.

And even before that, you know, we go back to Kennedy Johnson, you know, you name it, past presidents, going back to the 60s, there was a whole debate about, you know, Europe needing to do more.

As Europe recovered from World War II, it needed to step up in terms of its commitments to its own defense.

And, you know, they've been wanting in that.

But the United States has also prospered, you know, that so-called arsenal of democracy that was, you know, kind of built up in the Midwest and elsewhere and built up more recently by the Northrop Grumman's and Lockheed Martin's and drills and, you know, all the kind of newer companies, Palantir, you know, you name them, by selling products, services, as well as, you know, military equipment and state of the art, you know, technology to, you've got it, other NATO members.