You are not ruling out military force to take Greenland. I don't rule it out. I don't say I'm going to do it, but I don't rule out anything. No, not there. We need Greenland very badly. Greenland is a very small amount of people. Which we'll take care of and we'll cherish them and all of that, but we need that for international security. Do you know we have Russian boats and we have Chinese boats, gunships all over the place, aircraft carriers, gunships going up and down the coast of Greenland. We. (53:56–54:08)
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