Trump Eyes Purchase Of Greenland

The Wallstreet Journal ^ | Aug. 15, 2019

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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 discussions, 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.

U.S. officials view Greenland as important to American national-security interests. A decades-old defense treaty between Denmark and the U.S. gives the U.S. military virtually unlimited rights in Greenland at America’s northernmost base, Thule Air Base. Located 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle, it includes a radar station that is part of a U.S. ballistic missile early-warning system. The base is also used by the U.S. Air Force Space Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command.

The U.S. has sought to derail Chinese efforts to gain an economic foothold in Greenland. The Pentagon worked successfully in 2018 to block China from financing three airports on the island.

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[ScottinVA]

Let’s buy it and turn it into a penal colony for liberals and other criminals.

[CincyRichieRich]

Proposal: Go kick Iran’s butt, make them cough up all bank accounts holding our $150B “Obama stash”, and buy Greenland with it. Oh, free their students like we should have by now.

[Tax-chick]

The Babylon Bee?

[Tax-chick]

... since Mr. Trump hadn’t floated the idea at a campaign rally yet, he probably wasn’t seriously considering it.

Or The Onion.

[Rapscallion]

It is a great idea. It is strategic terrortory for US interests and it threatens no other country. It is probably rich in natural resources yet to be discovered. It has developable land; rroom to expand. It is not crowded. It has not yet become corrupted. Pioneers will see incentives to go there.

IT IS A GREAT IDEA. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT! GO FOR IT.

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

and don’t forget fresh water held in ice!

[Caipirabob]

This is where we will send all the illegals.

[Rapscallion]

Too bad the WSJ has a carrier/circulation problem it cannot solve. If there were a smart proposal I would re-subscribe immediately.

[virgil]

I think it’s a great idea. With global warming, it will be a great vacation destination some day. A Florida in the north.

[Rapscallion]

Leave the criminals and liberals here in America I and take pioneers with pure hearts to America II.

[Rapscallion]

Leave the criminals and liberals here in America I and take pioneers with pure hearts to America II.

[Rapscallion]

Leave the criminals and liberals here in America I and take pioneers with pure hearts to America II.

[P.O.E.]

Better look under the hood. Why pay land prices for a bunch of water.

Would make a lovely global warming destination though.

[snoringbear]

Great for data storage....

[raccoonradio]

If Beatles came out today:

“How did you find America?”

” Turned left at Trumpland. “

[cgbg]

Great idea—every US land purchase has been a big winner.

Best news—at the rate of inflation (if you run the numbers for a hundred years) we have paid effectively nothing.

Can we give Manhattan back in some sort of swap?

[Gumdrop]

Is this Trump’s answer to the Democrats Green New Deal?

[sauropod]

Greenland is a sovereign country.

How can one just go ahead and buy another country?