brian. i agree with michael and anita that he is terribly worried about his re-election, he's worried about the state of the economy. look, polls were showing that he had a very tough road to re-election even with a good economy. if the economy is shaky, it becomes much harder to imagine that he can actually put together a majority vote next year. and that is -- that drives him crazy. but something else is going on. the way he sort of conflates the united states with himself. there was almost a sort of l'etat c'est moi trope to his remarks. they can't treat the united states this way when the danish prime minister said his notion a of buying greenland was absurd.o i am the chosen one to go