John Henley

You know, I mean, what is NATO?

NATO is a transatlantic entity.

defense alliance of 32 countries led by the United States, which has kind of guaranteed, since its foundation, the security of one and all under a very famous kind of mutual assistance clause, which basically means that if any one of those member states is attacked, the others commit

to come to its aid.

Nobody had ever envisaged that one NATO member might attack another.

And that's basically why people are saying that this would be the end of NATO.

I mean, I think we should say that, you know, Denmark and Greenland aren't alone in this.

You know, they've been very strong statements of support from the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.

And that, you know, the EU stood behind Denmark and Greenland.

Emmanuel Macron, the French president, said exactly the same thing.

There are European troops arriving on Greenland, not very many of them, roughly the same number of Germans.

There's quite a larger contingent of Danes going.

And I think there's growing momentum in Europe behind the idea of installing some kind of permanent force on Greenland.

And also in NATO terms, the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, the former Dutch Prime Minister, has also said that NATO is working on plans.

It's going to take time, but working on plans to improve Arctic security and to make sure that there are more NATO troops stationed there, that there are more exercises carried out there, that there are more boats, more planes, more equipment.

Yeah, I mean, military action is obviously completely a red line, but so also is buying the place, really.

I mean, the era when countries could buy and sell bits of their territory to others has long gone, really.

not just because countries don't buy and sell bits of their territory anymore, but because we have a thing called international law.

And international law recognizes the right to self-determination of every nation.

And the Greenlanders have a right to self-determination.