John Henley

It's a member of NATO.

It's a member of the European Union.

It's arguably the most kind of loyal ally to the U.S.,

And they don't want to be owned or bought or taken over or invaded by the United States.

Well, they were putting those points across, really.

And they did say afterwards, Lars Slokke Rasmussen, the Danish foreign minister, did say after the meeting, you know, that we didn't succeed in convincing the Americans.

Mm-hmm.

At least the meeting was apparently cordial in the sense that there was a big fear.

going into it on the Danish and Greenlandic side, that they were going to be in for the kind of humiliation that the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, suffered round about this time last year, in February last year, when he was in the White House meeting Trump and J.D.

Vance, the vice president.

So that didn't happen, which is good news from the Danish and Greenlandic point of view.

But they did say that fundamental difference of opinion remains.

And that they didn't succeed in convincing the US that there was no need and no necessity for the US to have control of Greenland.

Basically, everything that the US wants to accomplish on Greenland can be done without the US taking control of it.

The conclusion of the meeting was that they basically set up a kind of a high level working group and very senior officials from both sides will try and work their way forward and work their way out of this crisis.

But the foreign ministers did say, you know, that Trump really does genuinely seem hell bent, absolutely determined on acquiring control of a conquest of Greenland.

I think what has really focused minds was obviously the operation 10 days or so ago in Caracas, in Venezuela, when the US military went in and seized Maduro, the Venezuelan president, and kind of essentially abducted him and his wife.

It's obviously absolutely clear that he is prepared to put his money where his mouth is.

Why is that?

I mean, it would be probably NATO's greatest crisis in its history.