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And I think that's why he says it just makes sense that we should have that.

And it should be a U.S.

controlled territory.

I still don't know what's going to ultimately happen here.

You know, it does seem like right now, at least, that he's not convincing anyone to want him to buy it.

And, you know, I think clearly militarily we could take it if we wanted to.

But I don't think anyone, including Trump, wants that to happen.

I think he would very much rather make a deal.

um and i don't know whether that's gonna you know it may take time for that to take effect in terms of persuasion you know i mean scott talks often about how repetition makes a difference and you have to kind of normalize an idea so you you can't just expect the first time you say something that you're going to convince somebody of something but you might make them think it's a possibility where they never thought of it as a possibility before and then

the more and more it's said, the more they're thinking, well, maybe it will happen or maybe it should happen or maybe it's actually a good idea.

And so I think that's Trump's agenda from a persuasion perspective is that he just wants to keep talking about it and keep it in the news and keep saying it until he gets people to say, you know, you know what, it's a real possibility and maybe it actually makes sense.

I mean, I think part of the situation and what I think Trump is trying to take advantage of is that Greenland is a very neglected country, essentially.

They're this colony of Denmark, which really made no sense from the outset that Denmark would have a colony over here in our continent.

But that it costs Denmark a lot of money just to maintain it there because it's not easy to live there.

It requires a lot of infrastructure, requires a lot of ongoing investment, and it doesn't really produce enough to make it what you might consider profitable to have that as a territory.

You know, it sucks up a lot more resources from Denmark every year than it ever gives back to them.

And so, you know, economically, it's a liability for Denmark and it probably would be for us, too.

But I think we could probably afford it a lot more than Denmark could because it would just be a little blip on our budget compared to everything else we waste our money on.

And it would potentially solve a really important problem for us.

Whereas Denmark doesn't really care if Russia and China go across Greenland's territory because it doesn't affect them.