Steven Bartlett

What do we do?

Do we blow up the airports in Greenland?

And they did start planning that.

Do we plan to shoot down American planes?

Are we going to shoot at American soldiers?

You know, are they going to shoot at us?

And they had to suddenly imagine –

A real war with their closest ally and how that would impact them and impact trade and impact NATO and so on.

And not only did they have to do it, their close allies in Europe did it too.

So the Germans were consulting with the Danes all through this period.

You know, what if the Danes shoot down an American plane?

Like, how does that affect us?

And everybody went through this kind of traumatic experience of imagining a U.S.

invasion of a NATO ally.

And then Trump made a speech at Davos where he somehow changed the subject and confused Greenland and Iceland a few times, and it got put off.

But no one has recovered.

Everybody remembers that moment and said, okay, this is an unstable power.

They could do real damage to us.

They can't be relied on.

We need alternatives.