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Aaja Chemnitz

Aaja Chemnitz

Member of the Folketing

Feb 5, 2026

18:37
Hmm.
18:39
I think many of us understand and recognize that in better times, we could talk about high north, low tension.
18:46
And the situation is a little different today.
18:50
And therefore, it's also important to say that, you know, strengthening the defense is one thing, but also how can we do that with engaging the local community and the people there.
19:03
And the Arctic basic education, for example, in Gangluswag in the middle of Greenland is one of the, maybe the greatest successes that we have seen in defense in Greenland.
19:15
And I remember at one time I had this meeting and we had around 100 people coming there and So I was actually so kind to come as well.
19:24
And it was quite interesting to see that young people were actually, you know, interested in talking about defense and actually being actively involved in it, but not in a classic defense, you know, where it was about capabilities and so on.

13 MINS LATER

32:09
So I think that a little bit contrary to what Aya is saying, that it's exactly because of the rupture, exactly because of the increased tension, that we have to be much more careful around how we exactly deal with those questions in our Arctic reality.

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