Gordon Carrera
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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.
The US and Denmark are two NATO countries.
But if the Don Roe doctrine really does keep pushing outwards and is as aggressive as it looks, then the tensions could get pretty
Pretty real, pretty quickly.
But I think a lot of it does depend, doesn't it, David, on what happens in Venezuela.
It's too early to say.
We don't really know what their political complexion is going to be like.
And there's one lesson from previous events in things like Iraq and Libya, which is it's one thing to remove a leader.
It's another thing to build a stable, enduring regime.
And we just don't know what will come next.
Have you seen this one?
Oh, no, I haven't seen that.
Yeah.