Jack Power
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And then in the end, I mean, you know, those few days later,
were pretty frantic.
You could kind of see people kind of huddling and discussing things and hushed tones in corridors.
People were running here and there.
And then in the end, you know, Trump basically backed down and the heat came out of the situation.
But I think it's important to remember just the damage that that did to Denmark and Denmark's previously really, really close relationship with America.
And also Greenland and Europe's kind of wider relationship with the US.
I think if there was any lingering doubt about, you know, the lack of regard Trump gives to his European allies, you know, that was really the shattered, the last holdouts of people who were kind of trying to...
keep up with this slight mirage that actually Trump is, his bark is worse than his bite.
It has kind of prompted this, you know, reconsideration of Greenland and where they sit.
And it's, you know, those talks have been quietly ongoing between the
Greenland authorities between Denmark and Washington to come up with some kind of arrangement that would ideally head off the need for, as Trump sees it, him to own Greenland because what he's worried about is the Arctic Circle and Russia and China muscling in and influencing and interfering.
with their naval ships in that territory.