Mary Margaret Olihan

We'll see if this is a COFA or what this is, which is a free association pact like we have

with Palau and Micronesia.

I'm just not sure.

But it sounds like he's, and I'm not getting ahead of the president, but it does sound like he's letting the Danes say face and still say that it's Danish territory.

I think so.

Because that makes them an Arctic player, even though they can't afford to develop it or defend it and never have been able to.

They just don't have the interest or the capacity.

Well, look at the prime minister of Canada and how he's talking, even though he's under our protection blanket.

And you can see that people are not always grateful.

In fact, they can be ungrateful for what they receive from the United States taxpayers.

And in that case, if you've ever been in a neighborhood where a lot of people are on welfare,

you can kind of get the idea of how the Greenlanders operate because they receive 20% of their budget yearly from Denmark, a $600 million transfer.

Now, Denmark's benefited financially a lot.

They took out

I think it's almost $30 billion in cryolite over the years from Greenland.

And many, they have their hands in other businesses in Greenland.

So they benefit financially.

But they send this welfare payment of $600 million every year to the Greenlanders.

And without it, the Greenlanders wouldn't have kind of the very comfortable lives that they have.

They run it too.