A Moment Of Clarity: Greenland: The $700 Billion Question
The Michael Steele Podcast
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
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Is Greenland a real estate opportunity or a geopolitical necessity? Michael Steele explores the staggering $700 billion valuation and the ripple effects of President Trump’s proposal. From the strain on NATO alliances to the hidden complexities of international sovereignty, he breaks down why a frozen island became the center of a global firestorm.
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| 0:34.4 | with Indeed. And now for a moment of clarity when i read some of the stories |
| 0:44.0 | today around the reporting on the conversation with the danes about the purchase of greenland |
| 0:49.8 | i i just couldn't even they actually put a tag. They put a price tag on this. |
| 0:56.0 | $700 billion. |
| 0:57.9 | And so that tells me this whole thing is moving. |
| 1:00.4 | It's moving in a direction that at the end of the day, |
| 1:03.6 | Donald Trump just may get what he wants. |
| 1:06.3 | Because you have a Congress that is not engaged to tell the president, dude, could you sit in the corner |
| 1:13.3 | until we call you? You don't have, you're not, we're not buying Greenland. We're not taking Greenland. |
| 1:19.4 | And so the point that, you know, Max just made about NATO and the, all this is leading to the |
| 1:25.5 | deconstruction of NATO. And I was, you know, I admire Congressman Baker, Bacon a great deal. |
| 1:32.7 | I love the fact that he has stood principally on a lot of things. |
| 1:37.3 | But then he had this to say today, which had me scratching my head. |
| 1:40.0 | And I'll tell you why in a moment. |
| 1:41.0 | He said, if we went through with the threats, I think it would be the end of his presidency. |
| 1:47.1 | And he knows. |
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