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Alexander Stubb: “What we need is basically stronger NATO bases in Greenland…”

Featuring: Alexander Stubb, National Coalition | President of Finland | International

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Finnish president on Trump, Greenland and the war in Ukraine

Published | Video Starts at 11:26

I don't know the exact number of soldiers that existed there. Now there are a couple of hundred from what I gather. And I think at the end of the day What we need is basically stronger NATO bases in Greenland if the Greenlanders and when the Greenlanders want that. So this could be a real positive. And again, you can probably see that I'm an optimist by nature and the rest of it. (11:26–11:34)

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