I'm John Batchel, visiting with my colleague Colonel Jeff McCawson, United States Army retired

artillerymen, CBS News, Dickinson College visiting professor, CEO Diamond Sixth leadership

and strategy. NATO. Jeff is also a veteran of NATO. And as we look at the map right now,

the question of what happens after Ukraine.

There is no after Ukraine for the moment, so it's theoretical. But Finland and Sweden having joined,

and there being fresh information about the Arctic opening up to traffic, commercial traffic, military traffic. Russia sees this as an opportunity

to cut down their time to Asia and vice versa. And when you look at the Arctic, you have to account

for the fact that NATO and the United States and the Europeans who are participating in NATO

are not Arctic powers when it comes to icebreakers.

The Russians are, the Chinese are building an icebreaker fleet.

They're also looking to monitor U.S. warships

in and out of the Arctic zone.

And that brings us to Greenland.

Greenland is a power that is attached to Denmark, a power of geography, not of people.

I believe they're in the 56, 57,000 people on Greenland, but it's the world's largest island,

and it's the route you take to get to the Arctic passageways that lead to Asia and Europe. In addition to that,

it's long been part of the Greenland, Iceland, UK gap, so called, in the theoretical

world war that would involve major submarines dashing out of the Russian pens in the north,

the northern fleet. So it's not an uncritical part of the world. Mr. Trump has made

remarks, that's it, but the Europeans are regarding these remarks as significant. The reason I

connect to all these dots, Jeff, is that we have reason to believe that Mr. Trump is not supportive

of NATO, and NATO not supportive of NATO.

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