On "Forbes Newsroom," Mike Albertus, Professor at the University of Chicago, discussed how President Trump's ongoing push to acquire Greenland for the U.S. could change our relationship with Europe.
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00:00Prior presidents, including President Truman, have tried and failed to acquire Greenland.
00:06Is President Trump in his second term better positioned than these past efforts, in your opinion?
00:13Well, that's a difficult question.
00:15It depends a lot on what the Trump administration is willing to do, because after all, Denmark has indicated very clearly that it's not interested in selling Greenland.
00:23And Greenlanders themselves have indicated, you know, the Prime Minister of Greenland has indicated that this is an aggressive position that the United States is taking, and that also it is not interested.
00:37It is not up for sale.
00:38And so it would require either a very attractive deal on the part of the administration, but also probably some degree of military, you know, projection of military force, which is hard to countenance when one thinks of, you know, the current or what has been for a long time since the end of World War II, sort of global norms around the use of force, as well as things like, you know, the NATO alliance and the like.
01:06This would be a huge departure from a lot of that and would sacrifice, I think, a lot of, you know, alliances and goodwill across all of Europe.
01:16So it would be a very bold move to do something like that.