Oliver Crook

I don't understand what you're doing with Greenland.

Let's try to build great things.

I can set up a G7 meeting after Davos in Paris on Thursday afternoon.

I can invite the Ukrainians, the Danish, the Syrians, the Russians in the margins.

Let's have dinner together in Paris and talk on Thursday before you go back to the United States.

That's what the Germans have called it, that this is now a red line where the word blackmail has come out from a number of different European leaders saying that the Americans are basically just blackmailing the Europeans in order to advance the political aim.

They basically will hold off on taking any retaliatory action until February the 4th to see if those tariffs in fact come in.

But if those tariffs come in, it's hard to imagine a world in which the Europeans will not raise tariffs of their own and start to target some of those U.S.

goods and potentially use the anti-coercion instrument, which would give them more sweeping powers to potentially target American tech companies.

I'll just read it here because it is fairly brief.

Dear Jonas, considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped eight wars plus, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace, although it will always be predominant.

We can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America.

Denmark cannot protect the land from Russia or China.

And why would they have, quote unquote, right of ownership anyway?

There are no written documents.

It's only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago.

And it goes on from there.

But really, basically, it seems that Donald Trump has now added another list of reasons why he feels the insistence and the importance of trying to take over Greenland and apparently not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize is added to the list.

It was addressed to Jonas Garstura, and I'll just read it here because it is fairly brief.

Dear Jonas, considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped eight wars plus, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace, although it will always be predominant.