Sarah McBride
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The only instance where Article 5, our collective defense provision of our NATO alliance, has been invoked is after 9-11 in defense of the United States.
All of this is just completely a historical.
This president doesn't know history.
I don't think he cares to know history or is capable of knowing history, because I think it's a speech in Davos demonstrates he's an he's a moron.
I know you have some thoughts about the CODEL.
I heard your conversation with Bill.
Well, I think what is abundantly clear is that we need Republicans who privately say that they oppose this to speak out.
Frankly, the confusing statement by the president in Davos that first he said, and I think this might have been in the actual text of the speech, that he wouldn't use excessive force.
And then a couple seconds later,
It seemed like he perhaps ad-libbed, I won't use force.
I think the White House is going to have to clarify whether he means he's not going to use force, period, or he's not going to use excessive force, because those are two different things.
You know, I think one of the reasons why the CODEL was so important was because it is easy here at home for all of us to watch what's going on and think of this as sort of classic sort of political performance Trumpism.
Seeing it up close and being there on the ground and seeing the real and tangible impact this near conversation is happening, it wasn't shocking, but it was jarring.
People would actually come up to us on the streets pleading, not just with us to try to stop this, which of course we are, but pleading of how can we get out of this nightmare?
What can we do?
Because we are willing to literally give anything except what we truly can't give up, which is our sovereignty as a nation, which no nation would give up.
And the reality in Greenland is that families are thinking about leaving.
Children are going without sleep.
And what I think people here don't understand is that Greenland, I think everyone knows it's an island of ice.
But because of that, Denmark essentially subsidizes the majority of the cost of habitation in Greenland, which we would have to absorb as a government if we were to take it over.