Jared Isaacman

Hi, Glenn.

That was a very kind introduction that you gave me.

Absolutely.

So I mean, just practice this by saying, you know, I'm born in Singapore, and I immigrated to the US where I lived until only very recently when I moved to London.

I bring this up to actually demonstrate that I'm quite emotionally detached from any nationalistic sentiment and unburdened by, you know, alliance ties.

Because what I found talking about Greenland online on X is something very curious, you know, we always see the Europeans as

very sophisticated they view jingoistic nationalism as something barbaric and backwards and so very curious because all of a sudden with president trump's comments on greenland it's kind of triggered this uh nationalistic pride that i thought was was dormant um you know because that's the lesson the europeans took wrongly in my opinion from world war ii um and that's why they always berate the one leader who emphasizes nationalism and sovereignty in europe and that's uh

Victor Orban.

So yeah, let's get into the case for Greenland.

I mean, first it's, it's just, it's geography, you know, Donald Trump didn't just look at the map, saw some white space and say, I want that.

He didn't wake up one day and say that.

And it wasn't even his original idea.

The U S has on so many occasions tried to acquire Greenland beginning with William Seward in 1867.

He,

Of course, it's the one that successfully negotiated the purchase of Alaska from the Russians.

And at the time, back then, it was called Seaward's Folly, right?

And now it's 160 years later, and we cannot imagine anything other than Alaska being American.

So all this to say is that this noise, maybe in one generation, will be completely over.

If you look at a map and ask a seven-year-old to name all the continents in the world and then ask, where does Greenland belong?

It is so patently obvious if you just actually stare at a map, the kid would say it belongs to North America because it sits squarely on the North American tectonic plate.