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McFAUL: "No, no, no, no, this is the dumbest idea ever that I can ever remember, both in working on foreign policy or as a student of foreign policy. And I have studied American foreign policy since the 18th century. This makes no sense whatsoever. If there were threats, there are no assets there, first of all. But, you know, look at the map you just showed and you look at the water and you think, well, where might Russian subs come from? Where might Russian ships come from? Of course, up there. But we don’t need to annex Greenland to protect us against those. And by the way, I’m glad you have this map. Look at some of the other countries that are up there. They’re all NATO allies. So if we annex Greenland and blow up NATO, we lose access to all those other bases, all those. You might not be surprised. We might have intelligence assets and all those other countries up there that are members of the NATO alliance. It just makes no military sense whatsoever. Second, I dealt with Greenland, by the way, when I worked at the national Security Council, responsible for Russia. We have an agreement with the kingdom of Denmark goes back to 1951. We can put as many soldiers and bases there as we want. If the goal is really national security, but the goal is not national security. The goal is a vanity project for President Trump. He wants Greenland to become Trump land, so that he will be remembered in history as the guy that expanded the United States of America. And we just have to stop this idiotic idea that negative consequences of blowing up NATO, the most enduring, powerful alliance in the history of the world, to put a few bases in Greenland has to. It is, in my view, it’s the worst foreign policy idea that I can ever remember in American history."