Posted on 08/19/2019 7:11:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
When the Wall Street Journal broke the story late last week that President Trump was interested in the concept of the US purchasing Greenland, the immediate negative response from Danish officials and media was utterly predictable, since the story came as a bolt out of the blue. Nobody like to learn of “secret” plans over their own national fate being mulled by the most powerful country in the world. Denmark, after all, was invaded and occupied by the Nazis, and has had its full of being abused by more powerful nations.
But I suspect the story was leaked precisely to engender negative reactions from the Danes and from our own media. If the idea had been allowed to percolate in private then it is possible that discussions could have been advanced in a manner sensitive to Danish concerns, rather than coming as a media shock. After all, about a century ago, the United States carried out a similar purchase of colonial territory from Denmark, when the Danish West Indies became the U.S. Virgin Islands, following a $25 million transfer from the US Treasury to the Government of Denmark.
But once the Danes get over the shock, they may wish to consider their relationship to Greenland in another light, one that takes into consideration their role as colonial masters to an impoverished people who have been unable to develop sources of wealth that could lift them out of misery. James Pinkerton, writing for Breitbart, notes:
… the Danes have chosen to treat the territory, for the most part, like a giant nature preserve. And that’s why the native population of Greenland mostly lives in relative poverty as poor dependents of the masters in Copenhagen.
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I haven’t looked into resources there, but I’m sure fresh water is in abundance.
All Trump needs to say is he’s doing it to fight global warming and the left has to get onboard.
Wanna bet how fast they change their mind on global warming?
You guys missed the TV show about the prospectors in Greenland? They found Rubies just laying on the surface. Gold deposits that are profitable with even primitive techniques. It looks like Trump saw it.
If Greenland has great natural resources, aren’t the Danes and native people there profiting from them?
Leaders of countries that are doing poor economically dont try to buy large landmasses. He is projecting strength to China, Europe and our voters.
Go Trumpie...get Greenland...it is a gem from so many different angles. Trump the chess player with strategic thinking. Democrats...lousy, lazy checker players with Joe Sleepy” Biden as their Champion player!!! LMAO!!!
Just another thing to get indignant with Trump about. They ought to be flattered, and grateful that they live in a time when the world power doesn’t just flex a muscle and take what it wants by force. That’s been the way of the world for almost all of history and prehistory. Instead, Greenlanders and Danes live in peace and security, doing very little to defend themselves, and don’t bother to understand why.
I wonder why the Danes aren’t pursuing this.
Trump is handling this negotiation brilliantly.
You _want_ the other guy to give an outraged _no_ to the first offer.
Then you reel them in... :-)
LOL! Exactly...it’s win-win for us. They have to take a losing side.
Re: Denmark, after all, was invaded and occupied by the Nazis.
What?
No one under the age of 80 has a clear memory of the Germans invading and occupying Denmark - Denmark has been one of the wealthiest and most stable countries in the world for decades.
Re: Colonial masters to an impoverished people who have been unable to develop sources of wealth that could lift them out of misery.
The residents of Greenland are poor for the same reason that the indigenous people of Canada are poor - cultural and individual deficiencies.
Follow up story, Trump SAVES Greenland from Denmark’s Muslim invasion!
Was there even a named source for this “buy Greenland” story?
Makes you wonder if Trump is “making a play for Greenland” to keep eyes of the target of his real strategery.
Well as you know, noble “native people” never exploit their land or mine the mineral fruits of the earth.
With a name like Greenland it’s got to be good!
Long term, the only thing the USA would get from Greenland is two Democrat Senators and a Democrat Congressman.
88% of the voters are Inuit Eskimos.
Half their government budget comes as a block grant from the Danish government.
Can you imagine what the EPA and Federal Judges would do if Trump tried to develop Greenland’s mineral and oil deposits?
Why should they be offended? He didn’t threaten to take it like we could, but would never do.
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