Posted on 08/24/2019 3:49:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Trump is upset that Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called his interest in purchasing Greenland "absurd." Her dismissive response should have come as no surprise. In 1946, when President Harry Truman tried to purchase Greenland, Secretary of State James Byrnes wrote that the proposal "seemed to come as a shock" and an insult to Danish officials, who turned it down.
That was a big mistake. As part of his deal, Truman had offered to trade parts of the Point Barrow district of Alaska, including the rights to any oil discovered there, to Denmark, in exchange for parts of Greenland. The Danes dismissed the idea just as they did Trump's proposal. In 1967, the richest oil strike in U.S. history was made in the Point Barrow area. Bad move, Denmark! Sad!
With that blunder in their rearview mirror, you would think that Danish leaders would at least hear Trump out. The president's idea of buying Greenland is far from absurd. Today we have a military base in Greenland, so there is no need to buy it for that purpose. But Greenland has enormous unexplored stores of natural resources, including zinc, lead, gold, iron ore, diamonds, copper and uranium, that Denmark has been unable or unwilling to exploit.
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There are people volunteering to go to Mars. I think Greenland would attract a lot. Even more, if Trump offered 40 acres and a snowplow.
Trump should see if the Danes would trade California for Greenland. Now there’s a good deal. We could throw in CNN and the drive by media too.
Yea, but it’s GREEN-land.
Why all the Ice?
Maybe. But 1967 was well past the time when Truman was in charge...
It is ironic that Greenland is ice and rock and Iceland is quite green with trees and vegetation.
Trump is getting the same treatment. History repeats.
I wonder if the Lefties are saying that we should give Alaska back. Canada would enjoy having Russia as a new bordering neighbor?
We can forestall global warming by 1,000 years. Just mine the ice and dump it in the parts of the ocean that are warming (or at least pack it around the various temperature monitoring stations of the world)
Put THAT in your hockey stick, Michael Mann, and sit on it.
We don't need lebensraum. We are looking into the possibility for the resources, not the acreage.
Buy Greenland. Build WWII type barracks as housing for temporary holding areas. Move illegal aliens who are caught directly to those holding areas. Supply them with left over C-rations and see how quick others will want to come to the US. The length of their stay is however long it takes them to request their home country to pay their way back to it.
I had never heard of Truman offering Point Barrow to Denmark. That's as crazy as the U.S. trying to buy Hong Kong or Malta.
Nothing wrong with Thule AFB. The chow was awesome.
Yes we are, Trump knows it.
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