Jake Auchincloss

Ben, thanks for having me back on.

He should be emotional.

He's defending the sovereignty and self-determination of his people.

Americans certainly get emotional about that when it affects our patriotic allegiance to the United States of America.

Let me, before we talk about current events with Greenland, just rewind the clock to 2019.

So in 2019, the Danish intelligence services uncovered a Russian false flag operation in which Russia was falsifying documents, purporting to show that the United States was trying to seize Greenland from Denmark.

And the reason that Russia and its intelligence services was committed to this operation is that they knew that

That false flag operation would sow discord amongst NATO and thereby empower the Kremlin as it attacked or prepared to attack NATO's allies on Europe's Eastern flank.

Well, the Danish intelligence services found out and debunked this false flag operation in 2019, but it turns out that Russia need not have even bothered to use its intelligence services because the American president is doing exactly what they were trying to do with covert services six years ago.

What this American president is doing is sowing

Discord in NATO at a time when NATO needs to be strong and unified as it defends its Eastern flank.

And two, driving Greenland directly into the arms of the Russian and Chinese governments.

I served on the Select Committee on China last Congress.

To this Congress, I served on Energy and Commerce, which has jurisdiction over critical minerals.

I will tell you what the president is talking about with national security interests by seizing Greenland has zero efficacy.

There is nothing he is saying that makes any sense from a national security perspective.

We have everything we need when it comes to our military alliance with Denmark, a founding member of NATO.

Ben, you're putting your finger on it.

So if you think about NATO, right, it's got,

an Eastern flank where it is trying to defend Ukraine's sovereignty from Russian belligerents.