AI Giants HATE Open Source, the World is on Fire, Greenland | Weekly Recap

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We've reached an agreement with Denmark in Greenland.

Tom Bilyeu (1:10)

Trump has suddenly come out with a victory lap saying that we have secured the ultimate deal with Greenland. Never seen anything like it. This is the greatest thing ever. The question becomes, is there really anything new here or is this basically the same thing that was playing out in 1951? So in 1951, there's an agreement struck between the US and Denmark that basically says the US can have as many military bases as it wants. But the real thing that is becoming interesting here is that even when you talk to Denmark, they are saying, yes, there is something new that has happened here and it's a big win for Trump, but this is also a win certainly for Greenland, it's a win for Denmark, it's a win for the UK.

And so this seems like something that everybody is getting on board with, but let's break down exactly what's happening. So first and foremost, Trump needs a win. Now, the vast majority of humanity, I won't lump you guys into that, but the vast majority of humanity is a low information decision maker in their lives. They hear headlines, that's all they need. So you guys are going to be well informed enough to know that basically Trump is taking a small thing and blowing it up into something big and he's going to say, I told you I was going to get control and he's going to realize that most people do not understand that most of this stuff is already in place in 1951

And so while there is a new element to keeping foreign involvement out, so take for instance, Greenland will no longer have the ability to do things like have Chinese infrastructure. Now that may not seem like a big deal until you understand, forget which country it was, I think it was one of the Nordic countries. They took one of the Chinese automobiles that are now selling like hotcakes and they isolated it so it couldn't see anything around it. And they wanted to just see what will it do? Where will it be communicating to? And the vast majority of the communications were going back to China. So even when this thing doesn't have, it's not, it doesn't need navigation data or anything like that. It's constantly sending pings back to China. China is very smart. I won't even say China's not dumb. China's brilliant, man. They are chock full of a bunch of engineers that understand that information is power. And if they can be mapping the territory, if they can be getting data streams about how people are spending their time on their phones, if they can be listening into conversations, if they can bundle that up and be constantly sending a stream of that back to China, then obviously they're going to have an informational advantage over everybody else. And this was why the TikTok thing was such a big deal. If they also have algorithmic influence over a country, then they're going to have a massive advantage. So they can control both what people look at and what they see and get an informational loop by having infrastructure somewhere. So if you're the US and you know that China has always been excluded from the treaties and things around the Arctic because they're not actually in it, then you start asking the question, okay, these guys who can actually go under the ice, which very few people can, China, who is sending icebreakers up to the Arctic to try to make a new shipping route, they're insinuating themselves into the Arctic to try to get some amount of control over that. If you're the US and you're looking five, 10 years into the future and you know that your biggest adversary is China by a country mile, then you start saying, okay, hold on, this isn't just about them not being able to have a base. It isn't just about the US being able to have bases, which we already have. This is about us making sure that they're not able to do what they've done in so many places in the world, which is actually go and get their equipment put in to the infrastructure of the country. Now, with that as a backdrop, let us check in with one of the members of parliament from Denmark. Now earlier in this interview, he said, listen, this isn't that big of a deal. We had a lot of this already in place in 1951 And so Trump is doing a bit of his victory lap, which is the one of the things that Trump needs.