Buy Greenland???

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    Canadians in Alberta.......
    think very, very, very, very differently from Canadians in Ottawa!!!!
     
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    Did that snarky reply in any way address Don's petulant, clownish behavior regarding the colossally stupid, gullible notion Greenland could be purchased? Isn't the humiliating response to the Nitwit-in-Chief from the leaders of Denmark embarrassing enough for you?
     
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    We paid France for the Louisiana Purchase.

    We bought Alaska from Russia.

    We paid Mexico for the Gadsden Purchase (southern Arizona and New Mexico).

    Truman (a Democrat) tried to buy Greenland after WW II.
     
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    Exactly.

    Why it sure looked like Greenland was for sale.

    In 2017, Greenland’s prime minister flew to China and asked, as the Journal reported in February of this year, “Chinese state-run banks to finance the new commercial airports, including a big one for one of the smallest capitals on earth, Nuuk, which can now be served only by propeller planes. The bankers were interested, people at the meetings said, so long as a Chinese company constructed the airports.”​

    Reports indicate this action was triggered by Denmark refusing to help.​

    Then-Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis was not happy and convinced Danish officials to fund the infrastructure, sidelining China. This was an effort by China starting in 2018 and only ending when they officially withdrew in June of this year. For those who look past their shallow view of the United States and the administration, one would know it’s no coincidence that the president’s remarks on Greenland became public just two months after we successfully fought off China in their latest swing at the North American island.​

    Our Flight paths to Europe cross Greenland, having them under Chinese control would be untenable.

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