Gordon Carrera

Yeah.

I mean, you start bombing drug factories in Mexico.

You put pressure on the Colombian leader.

You try and squeeze Cuba.

It doesn't sound like they want to invade Cuba, but they hope they can kind of... It's a weak enough regime.

They can kind of push it over and collapse.

You have this kind of attempt to use coercive diplomacy effectively against these countries to say, you know...

do what we want or else, which works so long as Venezuela doesn't unravel or things don't go wrong to some extent, doesn't it?

And I mean, before anyone points it out, the Brits may have known a thing or two about gumbo diplomacy as well, as the Chinese may tell us over the opium wars.

and various other things.

But if we go back to the kind of present day, I mean, you'd be worried if you're Greenland.

And you could see the last day or two, Denmark has been suddenly realised, well, actually, when Donald Trump has said, we're going to get Greenland one way or another, and he talks about Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships all over the place, you can see that now, suddenly, if you're the Danes, you're thinking, he may be serious about this.

Now, I'm not convinced they're going to invade Greenland,

I mean, they've already got a military base up there at Pitterfick, at Thule, which, as we talked about in the previous series, I visited many years ago.

And so it may be more about kind of increasing the reach of American power on Greenland rather than actually taking it over.

But clearly, suddenly that looks much more real than it did before, I think.

Yeah, but the Danish leader has basically said hands off.

And even Keir Starmer, who spends, you know, Prime Minister, who has to walk a very careful line when it comes to kind of

relationships with the US has basically said, I agree with the Danes, I stand with them and their view on the future of Greenland.

So you can sense there the worries that are growing.