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Trump offered to buy the vast Danish territory during his first term in office – receiving an abrupt refusal – and he revived his push over the weekend when naming his ambassador to Copenhagen for his incoming administration.
Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede quickly sought to quash any chance of a deal. “Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale. We must not lose our long struggle for freedom,” Mute Egede said in a statement.
Greenland, the world’s largest island, is an autonomous Danish territory with its own parliament, about 55,000 inhabitants, and a small pro-independence movement. It relies on Denmark to fund more than half of its public budget.
Trump on Sunday posted that “for purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.”
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Selfishness, arrogance and ignorance 101
They are Ignorance and Want! They are the children of all who walk the Earth!
Seriously, though, what’s his thing for Greenland, anyway?
Mineral rights, on and off shore. There’s a goldmine there when the melt starts seriously hitting.
Trump won’t live that long, and let’s be real, that isn’t what he’s thinking of. But owning Greenland would be a serious boon to the United States in the next 50-100 years. Watch us utterly rape Alaska once the ice recedes.
Invading things seems to be a hangup for small dick energy guys - Taiwan, Ukraine, Gaza, killing the Kurds, and so forth. Maybe Greenland is just conveniently close and conveniently scarcely populated…?
Gas and oil reserves. He thinks they need some “freedom”.
Prime real estate once the snow and ice is gone.
The ice itself is going to become more and more valuable as the U.S. depletes its groundwater and other places which rely on glacial melt for their water don’t have it any more.
Trump said nothing about buying it, just that US had to have it.
He probably thinks it’s full of lush, green foliage. Probably wants the logging rights. Who knows with that guy.
Greenland, the world’s largest island, is an autonomous Danish territory with its own parliament, about 55,000 inhabitants, and a small pro-independence movement. It relies on Denmark to fund more than half of its public budget.
I think every community should have the autonomy to decide which team they want to join or none at all. But given this piece of information independence seems like a rather bad idea.
I mean, its population is small enough, that realistically, if we really decided we wanted it for geopolitical purposes, really wacky solutions do become possible. For example, you could cut a $2 million check to every man, woman, and child in Greenland, and the cost would be a $110 billion. That’s nothing to the US federal budget, and it would be a solid long term investment. You give every resident of Greenland enough cash to just straight up move to and retire in the US if they want to. And the cost would be minor compared to trying to seize it by military force, if such a conflict spawned a war with the EU. Even if us seizing by force just resulted in the EU applying a bunch of trade sanctions, straight up buying out the entire population would likely be far cheaper than doing it by force.
