Buy Greenland???

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  1. clarkeT

    clarkeT Well-Known Member

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    Truman tried it in 1946. China wants a foothold in the Arctic so is investing in Greenland.
     
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    It makes strategic and economic sense. It depends on the terms if I was to agree or disagree with it though.
     
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    Denmark will not agree and the Danes pay for about 50% of the Greenland budget.
     
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    It would be a brilliant move, and one that would pay massively in the long run. Denmark won’t do it though
     
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    Aside from the obvious gobsmacking aspects of this nuttery the crowning touch for me was this:

    ... despite Trump repeatedly bringing this up in dinner conversations and with advisers it might be a "joke," says someone the Journal only describes as a "people." Because "since Mr. Trump hadn’t floated the idea at a campaign rally yet, he probably isn’t seriously considering it."

    ^^^ This, apparently, is how serious government policy is arrived at - whether a madman shouts it at his adoring crowds at his Nuremberg rallies.
     
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    Greenland to Trump: We are not for sale.
     
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    I heard that's what the folks in the Ukraine said right before......
     
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    Is there no mole hill leftist won't try to convert into a mountain? Please note we are already paying rent on Thule.
     
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    I don't know, I don't think that Greenlanders consider the idea of being bought by Trump a "mole hill". If I were them, I'd consider it an insult.
     
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    Given as how Trump is only the latest in a moderately lengthy line. Mole hill it is. Given that the majority of people living there are at the US air station at Thule I don't think most would care.
     
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    Forgive me but what does Denmark have to say about it, since it is their country technically?
     
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    Geesh, Don got punked but isn't smart enough to know it. I can't believe this is even a subject of conversation.
     
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    Funny. I suggest you read up on what the US already exercises in Greenland before you wax again...
     
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    China is investing in a rare earth mining operation there. It's got its foothold in the Arctic via Russia.
     
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    Maybe we can trade California for Greenland.
     
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    and give them all the military we have there also..
     
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    And the homeless, rats, feces, cholera, plague, etc.
     
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    Good idea, exchange a $3.0 trillion economy, 14% of the US GDP, for a $2.7 billion economy. I'm sure California would do fine without the US. The other way around? I'm not so sure. However, without CA, the hicks would have a permanent hold on US government, so they could enact their regressive policies.
     
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    I don't know....Cali...needs a lot of Federal support: https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3531/1

    If you honestly think the USA is somehow depended on California to survive....well.....that's almost as divorced from reality as your immigration thread was.
     
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    Unlike many red states, CA receives 96 cents for every tax dollar sent to DC, so they are a net contributor. Not as much as other blue states conservatives hate, for example, NJ, NY, MA, but CA contributes, unlike WV, for example, which receives $2.07 for every tax dollar sent to DC. And that doesn't even account for innovation, education etc, in which CA is at the forefront. So, tell me again who is divorced from reality, you or me?
     
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    I am merely highlighting it gets massive amounts of money from the feds...more then any other state.

    It should contribute more the west va it’s bigger
     
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    Brilliant why
    Pay massively how
     
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    Strategic sure, but we already have a base there
    Economically how
     
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    What happens when you are represented by facist democrats for most of the last 70 years...
     

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