Welcoming the leaders of Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland to the White House on Friday, Obama said that, if “we” let Nordic countries control the world, that “they could clean things up”:
“So I really do believe that the world would be more secure and more prosperous if we just had more partners like our Nordic countries. There have been times where I’ve said, why don’t we just put all these small countries in charge for a while? And they could clean things up.”
The Nordic countries are vital to his efforts to create a new world order, Obama said:
“They have been extraordinarily important for us in shaping and maintaining an international order that is rule-based, that is fair, that is just.”
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