Francesca Chambers

but also be pursuing U.S.

national security interests as part of that in some of these other countries.

And they say that that was what was at play in Venezuela and then could potentially be at play in some of these other places like Greenland, which is a territory of Denmark.

They've been responding to this with concern and saying that this is a NATO ally.

This is a U.S.

military ally.

And it's up to the people of Denmark as well as the people of Greenland to determine what happens.

Now, it's important to note that Denmark has repeatedly said that Greenland is not for sale.

And opinion polls would show that the people of Greenland

They also are not interested in either becoming part of the United States or in leaving, you know, Denmark.

And so the Trump administration, however, has continued to push forward with this idea that he came up with in his first term.

And they pointed to that in response to some of the growing interest in this debate to say this isn't a new idea.

This is something that the president has long been pushing.

It's notable and important, though, that now Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that he will be having a meeting with Denmark to have a conversation about this.

That's not necessarily to say that the U.S.

is going to be putting some sort of an offer on the table to buy Greenland at that meeting, but that's more in response to the Danes saying that it's time to have a conversation.

Well, they believe that it's ready to fall in terms of the fact that it is so reliant on Venezuela.

And so it's their belief, and not just their belief, by the way, experts who I've spoken to in the region, that by cutting off Venezuelan oil to Cuba, by cutting it off from the de Maduro regime, that the Cuban regime could be under a lot of economic pressure.

And so that it could just collapse.

internally on its own.