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 ...
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.
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.
Put some ice on that.
Let me correct it...
“LEFTIST Danes indignant over Greenland.”
And yeah, I agree... put some Iceland on that...
s/b "A Handful of Danes we cherry-picked for this screed..." Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
Other than the op-ed page the rest of the Wall Street Journal is just as corrupt and liberal as the New York Times.
They weren’t indignant over selling out to the ChiComs....
I have no idea, if they did or not.
Nicely done
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
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?
Re: critters in God’s zoo
I agree.
And, you have always looked much younger than your real age!
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.
Greenland is the most socialist country on the planet. The government owns all real estate and all means of production.
I believe that when they give back their Danish and Canadian government subsidies.
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.
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.
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.
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