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00:02 Report by / Teri Schultz
00:19 Donald Trump / US President
00:45 Soren Andersen / Danish Joint Arctic Command chief
01:03 Alexus Grynkewich / NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe
01:24 Ondrej Ditrych / EU Institute for Security Studies
02:07 Dick Berlijn / Former Dutch military chief

Script:

Greenlanders have been worried about foreign incursions…
 
SOT: Protester
"People don't sleep at night. Our family, our friends, everybody is anxious in Greenland right now."
 
But it's Donald Trump himself who's causing the insomnia, insisting the island needs to become U-S territory to be safe.
 
SOT: Donald Trump, US President
"You have Russian destroyers and submarines and China destroyers and submarines all over the place."
 
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That's not the case today at least… a look at MarineTraffic.com which shows the movements of vessels worldwide indicates none of the ships around Greenland right now are identified as Russian or Chinese.
  
And the man in charge of Denmark's Joint Arctic Command says that's the norm.
 
SOT: Soren Andersen, Major-General, Danish Joint Arctic Command chief
"I've been commander up here for two and a half years. I haven't seen any Russia or Chinese combat ships up here."
 
NATO leaders meeting last week confirmed there’s no immediate threat to NATO in the Arctic but that in increasing Russian-Chinese cooperation could change that.
 
SOT: Alexus Grynkewich, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe
"It's been both in the maritime domain with increased joint patrols, as well as in the air domain, with long range bomber patrols being conducted jointly.<flash> It's something that we need to pay attention to."
 
It may actually be some islands Trump hasn't mentioned that merit more concern: the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard…where Russia is allowed by a 1920 treaty to have a permanent presence, albeit not a military one.
 
SOT: Ondrej Ditrych, EU Institute for Security Studies 
"They are using the presence on Svalbard, which is legally mandated, to sort of pressure Norway now and then to contest its sovereignty, contest its control, overstepping the boundaries, seeing how Norway will respond. This is very much the hybrid playbook that we are very familiar with."
 
Spurred on by Trump's threats to seize Greenland, NATO is expected to announce a bolstered presence in the high north, likely called "Arctic Sentry" along the lines of missions launched in response to increased Russian activity the Baltic sea and along the Eastern flank.
 
But the credibility of the alliance's future mission may already be crippled, even though Trump has backed down from his most aggressive threats.
 
SOT: Dick Berlijn, former Dutch defense chief 
"It has weakened NATO like nothing else before. And of course, the consequences of that is that the Kremlin is watching this. They don't have to do anything."
 
And even though NATO already was increasing its presence in the Arctic, European leaders are likely to return to their tactic of saying "Trump was right" in pushing them to do it faster… to keep peace — within the alliance.

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