In all fairness, I know more about my country than you do.
245 million eligible to vote. 77.3 million voted for him, 167 million DID NOT vote for him. Roughly a third of those eligible voted for him, not 50%.
By the same token, more than 167 million eligible voters didn’t vote for Kamala Harris. Would you conclude that all of those people regard her as a “national embarrassment”?
No, I would conclude that 167 million were unable to endorse either Trump or Harris, whether out of ennui, apathy or embarrassment. It is notoriously unknowable (reliably) which factor attaches to which candidate by what percentage of inactive voters.
Fair enough. \hijack
I just used the Google AI result at the top of my search. But you’re right; the specific number is not what’s important. It’s that why would I sell 1/55000 (my share) of several trillion for 1 million?
I did think ther was something wrong with the idea of Greenland having all these supposed riches and yet Denmark has to prop up their economy. The climate and ice pack must make resource extraction very expensive.
Because 1) it’s money in your pocket, not an oil company’s (it would be some kind of citizens’ wealth fund) and 2) it’s money now, that you can invest as you wish.
Again, I absolutely do not think they should sell. I just don’t think these financial objections are that strong compared to just giving up their sovereignty.
As much as I am against corporal punishment, if ever there was a toddler that needed a firm smack on the bottom and being sent to bed without any supper, that would be Trump.
Everyone thinks the NATO treaty requires instantly going to war; it actually doesn’t exactly say that. It says member countries must take “such action as they deem necessary,” which COULD include force.
I agree, if you substitute “firm smack” with “cast iron frying pan”, and “bottom” with “fat head”.
Greenland has been a colony for 300 years. They are getting closer to real independence. I doubt they will go into a new colonial relation with someone that blind to their situation.
Is going to war with the country making the Ozempic really the best thing Donald can do for his base?
Can the country that makes Ozempic afford to piss off their biggest client?
The country easily, the company would take a hit.
Thank you. In return I’ll endeavor to ask you about your country and if I assume from afar, I hope you’ll call me out on it.
Peace.
Would you really want your backyard to basically be a large mining operation?
This is not unique to Greenland.
There are/were significant parts of the western part of the US that off limits by federal mandate to resource extraction, despite the likely presence of economic quantities of various resources. Much of the North Slope of Alaska, on the other hand, is open to oil and gas operations (not exactly warm and easy to work up there, I’ll note).
And many, if not all, of the states involved get a lot more federal money than they pay in taxes.
There have been and continue to be debates about that. On one side property owners, environmentalists, etc who want to preserve that land as it is. On the other, industrialists and so forth who argue the benefits of extracting those resources outweigh the costs.
There’s nothing unique about that debate re: Greenland. The idea that because there are resources to be extracted implies that they should be or must be is not a given.
And the argument that just because those resources have not yet been extracted implies some difficulty or high cost to do so is bunk. It’s not even a given in the US as it stands today. We know there are lumber, hydrocarbons, rare earths, and other resources in many places that we could extract, yet we don’t. And not due to the cost or difficulty in doing so.
Boo, with diplomacy like that, you have my vote for Ambassador to the UN.
Maybe Trump’s strategy is to threaten to invade Greenland then not doing it so he’ll win the Nobel Peace Prize.
It frankly wouldn’t be the most bewildering issuance of that prize. As far as I can tell, recipients of Nobels Fredspris are selected by random lottery drawn from a bowl of names selected by word cloud analysis of New York Post headlines. It is probably dumb luck that Rudy Giuliani isn’t a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Stranger
Trumps strategy is to flood the zone with shit to distract from his awful cabinet.