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Greenland Flag Profile Pic? Really? · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start
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Speaker 1: your day. You're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Wednesday morning, twenty, first day of January. I'm West Thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining me. It's the thing that we now do
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Speaker 2: for whatever reason. It's the let's put a country's flag
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Speaker 2: as our social media profile image for whatever the cause is.
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Speaker 2: We dive into these causes and sometimes they make sense.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's about solidarity, sometimes it's about a terror attack.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's about a country being invaded. You know, people
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Speaker 2: jump to do that for Ukraine, and some people are
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Speaker 2: still rocking them stuff. Man, they're rocking it hard. You
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Speaker 2: can kind of. I mean, I know there's going to
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Speaker 2: be some people who are going to stick with that
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Speaker 2: all the way to the end. A lot of people
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Speaker 2: that still have a Ukraine flag probably are of Ukrainian descent,
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Speaker 2: you know, the Yakov Smirnoffs of the world. You know,
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Speaker 2: that's what we're still kind of kind of dealing with
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Speaker 2: with that.
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Speaker 3: I think. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I know there's some people I guess that
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Speaker 2: still have it. Maybe down in the corner. That's certainly
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Speaker 2: been the case for you know, people that I know
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Speaker 2: with a Palestinian flag, people that are of Palestinian descent,
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Speaker 2: and people, honestly, let's be clear on this too, people
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Speaker 2: that I know that are representing the Christians.
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Speaker 3: Of Palestinian descent. Right.
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Speaker 2: So, like I said before about all that, I understand,
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Speaker 2: there's complexities to all of these issues. There's things that
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Speaker 2: certainly put us in a position where we're gonna go
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Speaker 2: I would like to have, you know, a dog in
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Speaker 2: the fight, or I have a dog in the fight.
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Speaker 2: You know, if there's something going on with your ancestry
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Speaker 2: or your you know, family or origins, and I get
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Speaker 2: all of those things I do. You just have to
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Speaker 2: be careful because for some people, you want to be
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Speaker 2: associated with this group, but you don't want to be
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Speaker 2: associated with that part of the group that makes any sense.
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Speaker 2: And that's been certainly true with a lot of people
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Speaker 2: in a lot of places over time, Okay for a
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Speaker 2: very long time. What becomes kind of baffling to me.
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Speaker 2: And for the most part, by the way, this is
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Speaker 2: one of those things that would happen and you'd see
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Speaker 2: a lot of people on the left really enjoy this.
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Speaker 2: This is something that they're into to the point where
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Speaker 2: they want to bully you into like you have to
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Speaker 2: show solidarity with them, or remember we've had these, you know,
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Speaker 2: change your profile pictures to all black to show your
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Speaker 2: solidarity with Black Lives Matter. By the way, I didn't
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Speaker 2: even when we talked about this yesterday, I didn't even
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Speaker 2: realize that this protest at this church was somehow affiliated
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Speaker 2: with Black Lives Matter. The absurdity of the fact that
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Speaker 2: there are still people that are supporting Black Lives Matter
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Speaker 2: as an organization is baffling to me. It's one thing
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Speaker 2: to just say, hey, look, I support Black Americans. You
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Speaker 2: want to do the yes, But this bullying notion of
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Speaker 2: I support the organization Black Lives Matter in spite of
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Speaker 2: the track record in the history, and I assume this
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Speaker 2: is the same Black Lives Matter. I just saw it
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Speaker 2: as part of the title of the protest that was
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Speaker 2: going on in the church. So church lives matter too.
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Speaker 2: Let people worship, let people have their religion, their First
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Speaker 2: Amendment protected religion.
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Speaker 3: But we're not going back to that topic.
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Speaker 2: I'm just pointing out the fact that there have been
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Speaker 2: these cases where people have been bullied into supporting things.
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Speaker 2: You get bullied into you're supposed to support this now
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Speaker 2: Here recently with this stuff going on in Iran, we
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Speaker 2: started seeing flags of support for Iran showing up for
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Speaker 2: more conservative people, which is also interesting because you're talking
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Speaker 2: about freedom, you're talking about especially when it comes to
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Speaker 2: the way women are treated there and women standing up
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Speaker 2: for their rights and all those things. So that was
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Speaker 2: one that kind of surprised me because it's not typically
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Speaker 2: something that you see from conservatives. Maybe in the early
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Speaker 2: you know, maybe it's like I support you know, France,
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Speaker 2: and I'm supporting you know, Paris after a terror attack
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Speaker 2: or whatever, but not necessarily these long haul things. The
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Speaker 2: long haul things tend to be from the left, and
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Speaker 2: then the more third ones tend to come from the left.
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Speaker 2: Enter the Greenland flag that I have seen pop up
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Speaker 2: on a few people's profiles. Now, let me just say this,
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Speaker 2: if you're listening and you have a Greenland flag on it,
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Speaker 2: and you're probably not listening, and I've seen a few,
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Speaker 2: and I'm just going to assume based on the fact
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Speaker 2: that there are people that are protesting the idea of
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Speaker 2: the US wanting to buy Greenland solely because Donald Trump
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Speaker 2: is involved, and ignoring the importance of this part of
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Speaker 2: the world and the significance for peace in our world,
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Speaker 2: and just a few things. The fact that we have
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Speaker 2: people that are saying that they stand in solidarity with Greenland,
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Speaker 2: it's it's comical, not because it's it's just comical. It's
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Speaker 2: just comical because it's really there's not a lot there
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Speaker 2: to stand in solidarity with as far as people. What
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Speaker 2: is there to stand in solidarity with is the strategic
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Speaker 2: placement of Greenland and what it would mean for safety
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Speaker 2: and security of the world. See, by standing with opposition
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Speaker 2: to Donald Trump over Greenland, you are standing in solidarity
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Speaker 2: with China and Russia that also wants Greenland. And this
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Speaker 2: is not something new. This is something that has been
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Speaker 2: around since Andrew Johnson. Andrew Johnson wanted to buy Greenland
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Speaker 2: and Iceland right after Alaska during World War Two Denmark's
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Speaker 2: occupation FDR. Under FDR, the US took over their defense
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Speaker 2: in Greenland in nineteen forty six, Harry Truman offered to
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Speaker 2: buy it for one hundred million dollars in cold hard gold.
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Speaker 2: He wanted to pay for it in gold. There has
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Speaker 2: been expansion as far as missile defense that happened in
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Speaker 2: the post Cold War era, and then in twenty nineteen,
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Speaker 2: Trump basically said out loud what was always discussed in private,
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Speaker 2: that this is something that the US needs to do,
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Speaker 2: the US needs to buy or acquire or whatever, Greenland,
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Speaker 2: and the absurdity of this now just being something he
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Speaker 2: just came up with out of nowhere. And I told you,
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Speaker 2: I guess yesterday about the fact that there's more going
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Speaker 2: on here than people really realize. And I know it's
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Speaker 2: starting to become kind of a story. But if you're
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Speaker 2: a student of history and all these things that I'm
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Speaker 2: talking about, you know the importance.
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Speaker 3: Of this area.
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Speaker 2: This is where you need a missile defense system, this
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Speaker 2: is where you need a this is this area is
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Speaker 2: needed for the Dome, This is needed for protection, This
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Speaker 2: is needed for protection of Europe. But there's a stubbornness
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Speaker 2: at play here where you have people in Europe saying no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: we're not We're not going to be part of this.
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Speaker 2: We don't want any part of this at all. We
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Speaker 2: don't like Donald Trump or whatever it is. Mostly though
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Speaker 2: we don't like Donald Trump is here, but there are
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Speaker 2: places that in Europe.
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Speaker 3: That feel that way.
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Speaker 2: But here's the thing. Just put this into terms. Because
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Speaker 2: this is, you know, part of Denmark, and because of NATO.
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Speaker 2: Suppose Russia did somehow decide to invade their China. But Russia,
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Speaker 2: strategically it's like right there, it's right there for Russia.
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Speaker 2: If they decided this is where we want to go,
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Speaker 2: and they did, we as Americans would be forced as
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Speaker 2: part of the agreement to defend this part of Denmark.
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Speaker 2: So we're already on board for their defense. So now
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Speaker 2: you've got Trump who is laying out, look, this is
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Speaker 2: going to happen, and people are going, oh, he's going
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Speaker 2: to take over a country. This is about expansion, it's
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Speaker 2: about security, it's about a place that I mean, six
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Speaker 2: million people, is that what we're talking about. That's uh, there's
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Speaker 2: more people than that in Atlanta during the day at work.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's not a lot of people for a
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Speaker 2: large piece of land strategically placed in an area that
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Speaker 2: would allow the US and allies to protect themselves and
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Speaker 2: each other. There's an importance there and an absurdity that
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Speaker 2: these Scandinavian countries are gonna have to usual wind power
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Speaker 2: and solar power. You can't come in and have nuclear
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Speaker 2: power in this look. It's not like the idea is
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Speaker 2: to destroy the whole place and turn everything into a
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Speaker 2: giant nuclear reactor.
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Speaker 3: That's not the plan.
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Speaker 2: The idea is to take advantage of the shipping and
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Speaker 2: that's the other part of this. It's easy to go, okay,
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Speaker 2: missile defense. It's also a lot of importance here when.
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Speaker 3: It comes to.
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Speaker 2: Boats, submarines, and nuclear subs. This is an important area
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Speaker 2: and the US is basically just saying.
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Speaker 3: We need it.
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Speaker 2: We've needed it for over one hundred years. We've needed
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Speaker 2: it for one hundred and fifty years. We need it,
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Speaker 2: We need this area, We need this to do what
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Speaker 2: we've tried to do for the rest of the world,
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Speaker 2: and that's look out for them. And we have countries
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Speaker 2: that are digging in and being stubborn, and Trump has
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Speaker 2: basically laid it down when it comes to tariffs.
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Speaker 3: Look, we can stop.
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Speaker 2: Just giving it to you for free. We've been protecting
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Speaker 2: you for free. We can stop. We can start the tariffs.
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Speaker 2: We can start. We can get hard nosed with some
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Speaker 2: of these countries, France and other and it may come
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Speaker 2: to that, but hopefully, hopefully there's going to be a
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Speaker 2: very civil, very peaceful conclusion to this. It's going to
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Speaker 2: be interesting, but you have a president in Trump who
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Speaker 2: is not afraid to speak his mind, not afraid to
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Speaker 2: lay things out and tell you the way things are
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Speaker 2: going to be. And it's important that the world understands
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Speaker 2: this isn't a bully. This is somebody who's actually trying
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Speaker 2: to make sure we still have peace. And yes, China
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Speaker 2: wants it, Russia wants it. Anybody who understands just go
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Speaker 2: look at your globe. Just look at the globe people
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Speaker 2: that have a Greenland flag as their profile picture on
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Speaker 2: social media. If you looked at a globe, did you
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Speaker 2: go look at it and say this is where Greenland is.
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Speaker 2: I can see why these countries all want it. And
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Speaker 2: by the way, this Ukraine flag that people have had up, yeah,
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Speaker 2: that conflict's still going on with Russia. And for everybody
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Speaker 2: to say that Trump is in cohoots with Putin and
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Speaker 2: their buddies and all these things and all just made
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Speaker 2: up lies. So this is a direct middle finger to
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Speaker 2: Putin to secure this part of the world. The importance
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Speaker 2: of it, the need for it, all of that is.
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Speaker 3: A middle finger to him. So if you.
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Speaker 2: Think, if you truly believe that he's buddies with Putin,
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Speaker 2: why would he be doing this? You think it's because
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Speaker 2: he's power hungry. He's trying to get things done. He's
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Speaker 2: got three years left. Yesterday marked, you know, the first
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Speaker 2: full year back in office. He is trying to get
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Speaker 2: things done while he has three more years. He's trying
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