Trump looking to buy Greenland?

[Jezcoe]

@BlueTex

Dang… Not for sale…

Greenland tells Trump it is open for business but not for sale | Reuters

The President is going to outflank that… just you watch.

[Munimula1]

Ahh- the Mercator projection.

[Borgia_dude]

Likely Trump would like to buy Greenland just to put his name in the history books. Preferable name would be The Trump Purchase.

[Camp]

It is a clever move as China tries to corner the market on rare earth metals, Trump looks to what is available.

Is it painful to be wrong so often?

[LucyLou]

@Camp

As long as mineral rights are included there is very little downside.

Might be a place where we can send asylum seekers while they await their hearings.

Do people even know what Seward’s folly is?

Trump outflanks his critics yet again.

He has done nothing, and he will do nothing.

[Jezcoe]

@Camp

It is a clever move as China tries to corner the market on rare earth metals, Trump looks to what is available.

Is it painful to be wrong so often?

How is proposing something that is never ever ever ever going to happen a clever move?

It is strange this notion of who is wrong and who is right.

[LucyLou]

@Camp

It is a clever move as China tries to corner the market on rare earth metals, Trump looks to what is available.

Is it painful to be wrong so often?

There is no move. It’s not in the realm of happening.

[Camp]

Saf explained how it would work and it is a clever idea.

Good to see you post through the pain of wrongfulness.

[Jezcoe]

@Camp

Saf explained how it would work and it is a clever idea.

Good to see you post through the pain of wrongfulness.

That isn’t happening either.

Really weird to claim some sort of victory over something that isn’t ever going to happen.

[Camp]

Life is full of complex oddities and often opportunities if you can see them.

Too bad you cannot.

[Jezcoe]

@Camp

Life is full of complex oddities and often opportunities if you can see them.

Too bad you cannot.

The President is said to pursue something that is not going to happen, it is being praised as genius and the people who are rightfully saying that it was never going to happen are being derided as being the dumb ones.

It is bonkers.

[Camp]

What is bonkers is saying never when you have no idea what may or may not transpire.

It is hubris and wishful prophesy with no basis in fact.

Saf explained the technical and political advantage to taking over as protectorate from Denmark.

I hope Trump follows through.

(orange man bad…have darn good idea sometimes though…confused)

[Jezcoe]

@Camp

What is bonkers is saying never when you have no idea what may or may not transpire.

It is hubris and wishful prophesy with no basis in fact.

Saf explained the technical and political advantage to taking over as protectorate from Denmark.

I hope Trump follows through.

(orange man bad…have darn good idea sometimes though…confused)

I am not making an “Orange Man Bad” argument.

This is what I am seeing here.

It is reported that the President is proposing something that will never never never ever ever ever happen.

An anonymous poster on an internet politics board comes up with the only plausible way that something like that might be kinda close as to what the President is proposing but is in no way near accomplishing the stated goal.

Then other posters take that idea… which is not the one that the President is proposing by the way… and proclaim that the President has won a victory and that the one’s who poo poo the idea are “outflanked”

That is what is bonkers.

[komobu]

That’s funny no matter what your politics!

But just dont forget it was a dem, Hank Johnson from Ga, who thought if we put 8k troops on Guam, it may tip over and capsize.

Guam Reaches the Tipping Point?

[ohknow35]

@Samm

Does Trump understand Greenland is actually a lot smaller than it appears on a map?

Actually ALL countries are a LOT larger than they appear on ANY map.

Not if you’re an astronaut.

[DOLOOP]

@W_and_C

Smart investment or nah ?

President Trump Eyes a New Real-Estate Purchase: Greenland - WSJ

WASHINGTON—President Trump made his name on the world’s most famous island. Now he wants to buy the world’s biggest.

The idea of the U.S. purchasing Greenland has captured the former real-estate developer’s imagination, according to people familiar with the deliberations, who said Mr. Trump has, with varying degrees of seriousness, repeatedly expressed interest in buying the ice-covered autonomous Danish territory between the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans.

In meetings, at dinners and in passing conversations, Mr. Trump has asked advisers whether the U.S. can acquire Greenland, listened with interest when they discuss its abundant resources and geopolitical importance, and, according to two of the people, has asked his White House counsel to look into the idea.

Some of his advisers have supported the concept, saying it was a good economic play, two of the people said, while others dismissed it as a fleeting fascination that will never come to fruition. It is also unclear how the U.S. would go about acquiring Greenland even if the effort was serious.

Odd thing to obsess on, but far from the most insane of his impulses.

[merickson]

@Safiel

Greenland can no longer be bought and sold, as it could in the 1940’s. It is now an autonomous region under the KING of Denmark, but not the GOVERNMENT of Denmark. Denmark provides its national defense and handles its foreign affairs, but aside from that, it is 99.99% an independent nation.

However, Greenland COULD choose to end its relationship with Denmark and sign Articles of Free Association with the United States, meaning that Greenland would stay the way it is, but the United States would become the protecting power, rather than Denmark. It would be a trivial cost to the United States, as we already have a base there and its defense needs are trivial.

And, looking at how the US treats Puerto Rico, Guam and the other protectorates, as well as how the US kept its treaty with Taiwan, Greenland is going to say “no”.

[Toll_Collector]

@W_and_C

I bet he’ll hire illegals to shovel snow

I’ll admit I’m nitpicking. But there really would be no need to hire illegals to shovel snow, as American citizens do it now for crap pay. What would be the point?

[CaughtInTheMiddle]

I don’t think we have many Inuit people in the United States like in Greenland. That would be pretty cool to add that diversity…

[DOLOOP]

@CaughtInTheMiddle

I don’t think we have many Inuit people in the United States like in Greenland. That would be pretty cool to add that diversity…

Alaska, my man.

Founding site of the Inuit Circumpolar Council.