The sellers definitely got the better of that deal. Because they weren’t even the people who lived on Manhattan Island. So they got $24 worth of trinkets for nothing.
Per person.
And finally an explanation of 'Why Greenland?"
Re last post, he was serious about buying Greenland in Trump 45. Donald cancelled a state visit in pique over Danish refusal to sell:
The difference now is “one way or the other.”
You know, I can’t help but think there’s probably a REASON nobody’s built any megacities in Greenland before.
Yeah…but these ideology-driven “build a utopia” ideas almost never consider practicality.
Not that I expect it to go anywhere; these libertarian schemes almost always dissolve in scam before anything ever actually gets built, much less completed. As I’ve said elsewhere nobody ever manages to build Rapture. Utter selfishness and a hatred of cooperation are self defeating for anything but parasitism.
Exhibit 1: Seasteading.
Those libertarians are giving parasites a bad name and I resent that. I somewhat like parasites, I wrote some interesting random facts I stumbled across about them some time ago. I have never written anything even remotely as positive about libertarians.
Christ, if taking us to a needless war isn’t grounds to shitcan this guy, what is?
War can only occur if U.S. military force is resisted.
Panama has no real army, but about 75 times as many people as Greenland. So maybe they can mount harassing attacks after the U.S. conquest.
I don’t see how Greenland can resist, either initially or in the long term.. So I think they are in the graver danger than Panama – and do not seem to really understand it:
I’m sure Trump would hint at the free association model (used by the nations of Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and Palau). In that model, the county adopts the U.S. dollar and U.S. Postal Service, but has an independent foreign policy with a seat in the United Nations. And they have their own flag, not the stars and stripes.That’s nothing like the colonial property Trump is gunning for.
However,.if you by some chance mean economic war, I agree. NATO would have to do something against the U.S., and economic warfare is all they could begin to manage.
Panama would probably mean the parking of ships at each end, and then blasting anybody that snipes at them.
Panama could threaten to blow up the canal I suppose.
They didn’t shitcan GWB for that. Why do you think they’d shitcan the current guy?
Panama is full of brown people and has something America would find profitable; that’s more than enough to make war desirable to Americans. Every Panamanian who dies is a victory for white racism. Trump could kill everyone there and I’d expect the majority of Americans to cheer him on; that’s the kind of thing he was elected to do.
Trump’s plan is to block the canal, and sell extra fuel to ships that will have to drive around South America.
Hey, if a bunch of Randian billionaires want to build Galt’s Gulch in the middle of Greenland, populated entirely by themselves and none of those yucky poor people who, you know, do cooking and cleaning and other shit like that, I’m all for it.
The income tax in Greenland, outside an existing municipally, looks to be a not-so-Randian 35 or 36 percent, but they should like that it’s basically a flat rate:
Greenlanders do not seem to be taking their situation nearly as seriously as I think it deserves. This is from last week:
The U.S. is stepping up its intelligence-gathering efforts regarding Greenland, drawing America’s spying apparatus into President Trump’s campaign to take over the island, according to two people familiar with the effort.
Several high-ranking officials under Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a “collection emphasis message” to intelligence-agency heads last week. They were directed to learn more about Greenland’s independence movement and attitudes on American resource extraction on the island.
The classified message asked agencies, whose tools include surveillance satellites, communications intercepts and spies on the ground, to identify people in Greenland and Denmark who support U.S. objectives for the island.
The directive is one of the first concrete steps Trump’s administration has taken toward fulfilling the president’s often-stated desire to acquire Greenland.
U.S. Orders Intelligence Agencies to Step Up Spying on Greenland
“Yes sir. It’s still cold.”
“Good work, lieutenant. Talk to you tomorrow.”