This is the Popular Front podcast with me Jake Hanrahan.

We're focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict all across the world.

Popular Front is completely independent.

Today we're speaking to journalist Sergei Slipchenko.

Good friend of ours here, great reporter.

He mostly covers the Arctic in detail.

He's going to be talking to us about this spiraling situation in Greenland where Trump has

basically said he wants the island.

He wants to control it, take it away from Denmark,

and I guess farm it for its natural resources.

There's a lot of sensationalist reporting going on right now,

so we're going to strip it back and work out what is actually happening

and how serious this is.

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Today is January 21st, 2024 and today there's already been all sorts going on in regards

to the agro in Greenland, which is, to be honest, from what I've

seen, one of the most kind of placid, chilled places.

Anyway, so today the prime minister of Greenland came out and said that they need to the people that need to prepare for the possibility

of military invasion. And then a few hours later, Trump came out and said, quote, the military is

not on the table. I don't think it will be necessary in regards to Greenland. So some

people are saying, well, yeah, because Trump only respects tough guy talk. That's why he idolizes

the maniac Putin. And others think maybe that Greenland's saying basically, let's go, has made him

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