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Mar 2025
42m 58s

Trump’s Ambitions for Greenland

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Today on the show, former Danish PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt joins the show to discuss the Trump administration’s push to take over Greenland. She argues that the US could easily get more involved in the territory militarily without needing to take it over.   Next, Alexander Dugin, Russian philosopher and the man often referred to as “Putin’s brain,” speaks wi ... Show More
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