And we have the vision of keeping Arctic as a low tension region. That's probably also why us themselves have decided to, to have a much softer footprint in Greenland. During the Cold War, at some stage they [the US] had 17 different military installations and military bases [in Greenland]. Now they only had one. They had like 10,000 personnel in Greenland. Now they have around 200. That's not our decision. That's a U.S. decision. And now the situation is entirely different. (06:49–06:52)
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