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For more tonight, we are joined live by Ambassador John Bolton, former National Security Adviser under President Trump, as well as former ambassador to the UN Ambassador, I appreciate your time and your perspective on this.

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President Trump has been very aggressive in his rhetoric here.

He says he will take it by force if necessary.

You actually penned an op ed in the Telegraph about this.

You say that this Greenland grab is Trump's worst move yet, also claiming nothing America needs in the country requires sovereignty or military force.

Well, the damage that Donald Trump is doing to America's reputation, to the belief, trust and good faith and reliance our European allies and friends around the world have on us is just impossible to state.

To threaten the invasion of a NATO ally, to seize by force territory from a democracy.

You cannot calculate how bad this is for us.

There is nothing that we need at the moment in terms of security in Greenland that's not amply Provided In a 1951 treaty with Denmark called the Defense of Greenland Treaty.

And, you know, if we could get this out of the spotlight, I think diplomats between the two countries and with other NATO allies could resolve this very quickly.

This is a tragedy, and that just unfolds day by day, causing us more and more harm.

I mean, so let me take the counterpoint then.

The President has said that if we don't take action, Russia or China will.

Tell me why you believe that reason alone is not enough to do something.

Well, the question is, when are Russia and China going to do something?

They are clearly a threat in the Arctic Circle.

The US has been just as lax in not taking steps against it as any other NATO ally.

And there's nothing that we wouldn't do to protect our interest from threats by Russia and China in Greenland, in northern Canada, or in Alaska.

The defense of these NATO territories is all critical to us, and that's why you have alliances.

So this idea that somehow we alone can defend.

It's not a question of defending Greenland.

The President said Chinese and Russian ships are all over it.

This threat comes because of the melting polar ice cap.

We need surveillance capabilities up there.

We need to protect against Chinese efforts through belt and road initiative style financing to get it, minerals in Greenland.

It has nothing to do with the need for American military force.

If you want to rip up the NATO alliance and if you want to convince every other American ally around the world, Japan South Korea, Australia, that we can't be trusted.

Go ahead and use military force against Denmark in Greenland.

Go ahead and threaten your best friends and allies with retaliatory tariffs because they just won't give in.

This is so counterproductive for the United States that it's going to take years to repair the damage that Donald Trump is doing.

Will do anything for the security of Greenland or the NATO alliance.

Do you think this could lead to the breaking up of NATO?

Well, consider what it means for the United States to invade an ally like Denmark.

I mean, what is it that that gives Trump the idea that the only way to deal with one of the friendliest countries in the world toward America for 250 years is to threaten military force?

Now people say, oh, well, that's just the way Trump is.

And overseas people take what he says seriously and they think that the risk of military force is real.

I don't think it is, but other people could be forgiven if they do.

And then to compound it by threatening a trade war after we've agreed with Europe last year on Trump's April tariffs on Liberation Day.

You know, this says no deal with Trump is ever final.

Is that really the way you want other countries to look at us?

That our word is never longer is never going to last long?

Ambassador, I hear you and we're almost out of time, but

I have to ask you, this is your former boss.

Well, he said the other day, we need Greenland.

Psychologically, the United States does not need Greenland.

This is not about American national security.

Ambassador John Bolton, appreciate the analysis and the time.

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