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Danes indignant over story of Trump mulling Greenland purchase,
American Thinker.com ^ | August 19, 2019 | Thomas Lifson

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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KEYWORDS: denmark; europeanunion; greenland; nato
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To: FreedomPoster
Re: It would never be a state

When the Political Left is involved, the word “never” does not exist in their vocabulary.

Please Google "statehood puerto rico washington dc" and check out some of the articles that come up.

41 posted on 08/19/2019 5:12:02 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Ozark Tom

Greenland sounds like a good investment. All that aside, fresh water is still a great commodity. More wars have been fought over water than anything else in history. Gold, rare metals etc are nice too heh.


42 posted on 08/19/2019 5:36:27 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Kaslin; Impy; BillyBoy; LS; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ...
"Danes indignant over Greenland"

Put some ice on that.

43 posted on 08/20/2019 12:18:52 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Kaslin; Impy; BillyBoy; LS; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; ...

Let me correct it...

“LEFTIST Danes indignant over Greenland.”

And yeah, I agree... put some Iceland on that...


44 posted on 08/20/2019 4:20:12 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...
s/b "A Handful of Danes we cherry-picked for this screed..." Thanks fieldmarshaldj.

45 posted on 08/20/2019 6:35:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Kaslin

Other than the op-ed page the rest of the Wall Street Journal is just as corrupt and liberal as the New York Times.


46 posted on 08/20/2019 9:04:54 AM PDT by GOPJ (Epstein - Child-Rape Pimp for White Liberal Elites... FOB - Friend of Bill...Invisible to the NYT's)
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To: Kaslin

They weren’t indignant over selling out to the ChiComs....


47 posted on 08/20/2019 9:12:45 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds)
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To: mewzilla

I have no idea, if they did or not.


48 posted on 08/20/2019 10:00:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: zeestephen

Nicely done


49 posted on 08/20/2019 10:02:33 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: zeestephen

Malach is PC on culture and skin etc

You made great points

Why do some groups lag worldwide

Historic geographic isolation is the biggest culprit in my opinion

Could be more than that

Malach prefer 1970s Cola commercials anthropology


50 posted on 08/20/2019 10:05:15 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: zeestephen
I was born in 1941 so of course I have no memory of it.

Now something hilarious.

I was born and raised in Germany. Last month there was a moron in the room I used to go to, who claimed that I must be at least 112 years old. Which meant I must have been born in 1907.

Now my late mother was born on July 4th 1909. I have no idea how she managed to have me two years before I was born.

There really are stupid critters in God's zoo. Don't you think so?

51 posted on 08/20/2019 10:16:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Re: critters in God’s zoo

I agree.

And, you have always looked much younger than your real age!


52 posted on 08/20/2019 3:57:33 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Kaslin

What I suspect is that Trump very publicly threw a wrench in the Danes efforts to sell or lease bases in Greenland to the Chinese.


54 posted on 08/20/2019 6:08:51 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: zeestephen
The residents of Greenland are poor for the same reason the residents of Venezuela are poor.

Greenland is the most socialist country on the planet. The government owns all real estate and all means of production.

55 posted on 08/20/2019 6:24:29 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: malach
Re: Not necessarily in their terms, Kemosabe.

I believe that when they give back their Danish and Canadian government subsidies.

56 posted on 08/20/2019 8:41:23 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: NFHale; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; AuH2ORepublican; LS

We used to buy land.

What’s old could be new again, but liberal sensibilities prevent that.

So the only way we could get Greenland is if the people of Greenland wanted it, and I don’t see why they wouldn’t want US citizenship.


57 posted on 08/21/2019 12:41:58 AM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: Impy; BillyBoy; LS; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; SunkenCiv; ..

Greenland per capita income is $39,569 (as of 2015), which would make it one of the poorest areas if annexed. Only the territories would rank lower in income (although that almost $40k is double that of Puerto Rico, which is terribly low and declining). It also has just 56k population.


58 posted on 08/21/2019 2:37:54 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

True, but irrelevant because of the small pop. The key to Greenland is threefold:
*Massive mineral resources
*Big oil potential
*Perfect strategic setting astride the GIUK Gap.


59 posted on 08/21/2019 6:29:16 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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