I think Greenland will be worked out with us.
I think we're going to have it.
I don't know really what claim Denmark has to it,
but it would be a very unfriendly act if they didn't allow that to happen,
because that's for protection of the free world.
Exciting times.
These are for any listeners who may have drawn the Danish American War of 2025 in their annual office forecasting sweep.
At issue is Greenland.
Greenland is at present part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Indeed, in strictly territorial terms, Greenland is most of the Kingdom of Denmark.
And before we get properly into things,
a brief reflection on Greenland's geography would probably help furnish some context to what is, as of this broadcast,
merely a bewildering diplomatic spat between nominal NATO allies,
but something which could conceivably grow more serious both in the high North Atlantic and elsewhere.
As cunningly foreshadowed, Greenland is huge.
If it was, as some of its people would prefer, an altogether independent sovereign state,
it would be the world's 12th biggest country by area, slotting in ahead of Saudi Arabia and Mexico.
To frame that in terms which may, who knows, shortly become more pertinent,
Greenland is three times the size of Texas, give or take, more than five times the size of California now.
And we're assuming, as always, that you have your globe close by,