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Marc Thiessen: Don't dismiss Trump's Greenland proposal. It's far from ridiculous
Fox News ^ | August 23, 2019 | Marc Thiessen, The Washington Post

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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TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: alaska; denmark; europeanunion; greenland; marcthiessen; nato; trump
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To: 2111USMC
Nobody in their right mind would want to live there.

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.

21 posted on 08/24/2019 6:15:14 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


22 posted on 08/24/2019 6:32:45 PM PDT by Hattie
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To: 2111USMC

Yea, but it’s GREEN-land.

Why all the Ice?


23 posted on 08/24/2019 6:47:44 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: sauropod

Maybe. But 1967 was well past the time when Truman was in charge...


24 posted on 08/24/2019 6:48:37 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: AFreeBird

It is ironic that Greenland is ice and rock and Iceland is quite green with trees and vegetation.


25 posted on 08/24/2019 6:51:55 PM PDT by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The idea of buying Alaska from Russia was called a "folly" in the 19th century ("Seward's Folly)... a vast empty wasteland filled with snow and nothing else... crazy!!!

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?

26 posted on 08/24/2019 7:25:02 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: morphing libertarian

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.


27 posted on 08/24/2019 7:28:52 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (winnning with flair)
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To: 2111USMC
There’s a reason the population is only 56K people. Nobody in their right mind would want to live there.

We don't need lebensraum. We are looking into the possibility for the resources, not the acreage.

28 posted on 08/24/2019 7:59:47 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


29 posted on 08/24/2019 8:08:30 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Any idiot can see that Greenland is part of Canada.

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.

30 posted on 08/24/2019 8:17:23 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: 2111USMC

Nothing wrong with Thule AFB. The chow was awesome.


31 posted on 08/24/2019 8:26:22 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
Agreed. Trump is softening up the public. He’ll let this simmer for a six months to a year, and then raise the issue again... after that he election maybe. 👍
32 posted on 08/25/2019 12:43:45 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: shanover

Yes we are, Trump knows it.


33 posted on 08/25/2019 12:44:52 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
There is a lot more to Greenland than ice. There is also mining to be done. I am certain that both President Trump and the Chinese are aware of this.
34 posted on 08/25/2019 5:47:29 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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