I keep thinking of the Saddam Hussein character on South Park. ‘Hey, guys! Look over there!’
What’s not “reliable” about news sources that report what Trump has actually said? Do your news sources not do that?
Yes, FoxNews reported that Harry Truman tried to buy it back in 1867.
In 1955 former President Truman visited Hill Valley, CA and found a futuristic-looking car with a strange “flux capacitor” that was just abandoned in the Lyon Estates housing tract under development…
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The High School featured in BTTF was a real school. One of its alumni was none other than future president Nixon.
Just curious, would Greenland or Denmark have the final say over the sale?
Of course I know he doesn’t have any knowledge about Iceland. But, I doubt he has any interest in it either. It’s too small and sounds too cold.
Being a moron I’m sure he thinks Greenland has miles of lovely countryside and coastal areas perfect for development. Plus, it’s really big and size is super important to him.
Better question, why in the world would someone who has the option want to live in Denmark or Greenland to live in the US?
So they can be the 51st star on the US flag? Ha ha!
Their quality of life is far better. They have universal healthcare and their education is paid for by the state. They actually believe in taking care of their people. We believe in handing over the vast majority of our wealth to the 1% and lowering their tax rates well below what the middle class pays.
They stand nothing to gain in this arrangement except the exploitation of their vast mineral deposits, which they can do all by themselves. Even Trump’s campaign motto is based around the premise that this country’s best days are behind us and somehow we’re going to recapture it? Ha!
You’ll have to be an idiot to agree to that arragement.
Not really answering my question.
It’s up to the citizens of Greenland and Denmark and they’ll have to be damnable fools to want to be colonized/exploited by the US. Our crime rates are astronomical comparrf to theirs, the medical cartel of this country rips off our people blind, and they don’t resent educated people. They also don’t let an psychopath off the street own military grade weaponary.
This country’s a damn mess.
Theoretically Denmark. While Greenland has self-rule, Denmark retains control of foreign affairs. Also Greenlanders also have Danish citizenship, so that’s a sticking point.
That said, in practice, there’s no way something like this would only occur without the explicit and overwhelming approval of both the Danish and Greenland Parliaments.
Greenland is an autonomous territory within the realm of the Kingdom of Denmark. Transfer of any part of Greenland to another sovereign nation (you can’t just ‘sell’ part of a sovereign territory like real estate) would require a vote of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Denmark and the concurrence of Frederik X, the King of Denmark.
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Actually annexing Greenland would require a treaty between the US and Denmark (or between the US and Greenland if it declares independence first). Treaties require a 2/3rds supermajority in the US Senate to ratify.
I am afraid that this is historically not accurate for Greenlad’s native population, who was not well treated by Denmark. Forced conversion to christianity, forced abortions and sterilisations, bad schooling, high levels of alcoholism, unemployment and drug addiction, general racism against them have all been observed and documented. Just like in Canada, the USA and Siberia, BTW. Does not make it better, but makes it easy to stirr up resentment. Just what trump wants and what his friends Murdock, Musk and Zuckerberg are so good at providing.
True in Denmark, false in Greenland.
Innuit education levels are more than precarious, your argument does not hold.
That is the problem: you are not talking about Greenland, you are venting about your own country. I understand you are angry, and you are right to be. But all this is irrelevant for the conflict with Greenland.
This sounds insane obtuse and willfully blind. If you want to take about historical wrongs committed in few countries except maybe the UK has a worse record on human rights abuses than the US. Denmark never committed near widespread genocide of the people of Greenland. How many millions of native people did the US mercilesslessly slaughter, rape, and forcibly move off their land? How many native people did the US send to Christian boarding schools hundreds of miles away that ribbed them of their culture and language?
No one knows. Nothing in Greenland’s history except maybe viking raids that comes even remotely close to such atrocities as the Trail of Tears. They didn’t practice chattle slavery for hundreds of years then deny those same people their inalienable rights in direct defiance if their own constitution.
This is really besides the point because currently Greenland middle class citizens are tteated much better by their government. They are provided universal healthcare, free college, their rates of crime/incarceration rates aren’t the highest in the world. They don’t mass shooting where scores of people are shot down in cold blood. They don’t declare bankruptcy after a visit to their emergency rooms. They also don’t allow psychopaths to own military grade firearms.
There’s little the US has to offer Greenland that they don’t already provided and much more. If the US wants to convince Greenland citizens to give up their autonomy they better come to the table with something other than handing a fist full of blood money to the country of Denmark.
I don’t get the impression that Trump is asking for anyone’s concurrence, much less permission.
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My point is simple ultimately the decision comes down to the people of Greenland and they would have to be damnable fools to surrender their autonomy to join the US. The US is broken in many ways that Greenland is not… and before any accuses me of being a traitor, I’m the exact oppositem I’m a ptatriot, I spent the best part of my life defending this country in a premier airborne combat unit.
Patriots don’t ignore their country’s problems, they examine them soberly and figure out ways to fix it.
This is an excellent quote. How can we have the audacity to condemn China for territorial aggression when we’re trying to colonize Greenland and Canada?
We have no rightful claims to their lands. China’s at least has ancestral connections to that Taiwan. Their government fled to that land after they were beaten in a war, among hundreds of years of familial connections.
Daym! Went Full Dexter & Sinister
If this story is true, it’s both darkly amusing and sad. I find it pretty plausible that Trump would be taken in before by this kind of Russian ruse (Ruse-Ian), and since he rarely drops a “good” idea, of course he’s returned to it now.