Posted on 04/07/2021 12:21:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Stupid virtue signaling even then.
That’s great news.
Other way around. The US wanted Greenland as a strategic Cold War base. We made an offer to the Danes... they said ‘no’.
Other way around. The U.S. offered Denmark $100 million for Greenland in 1946 and Denmark said 'no'.
As they develop their resources, Greenland’s people could become among the wealthiest in the world. With only 56,000 people and unknown amounts of mineral wealth under all that ice, they could be sitting on a gold mine, figuratively speaking. The per capita wealth could be a staggering amount.
Fifteen years ago China was attempting to corner the rare earth market - they were in Africa too... all the while we were debating the merits of 50 genders... Now we've got that idiot Biden talking up electric cars that will make us dependent on China for cell phone materials AND electric car batteries. I mean this is all so stupid.
We do not need China or Greenland. We just need the environmentalists to let the Mountain Pass CA mine to go back full speed. An somehow get rid of its Chinese “investors”.
Stupid Obama let that mine go bankrupt and let the Chinese buy it for pennies.
Yeah, they could become the wealthiest in the world.
But they might be wide enough to realize that if you play with a turd, you get crap on your fingers.
It’s a tale as old as Faust.
They are probably happier in the long run to keep international bankers, the good old USA, and certainly Red China out. You might as well invite in Goldman-Sachs.
You may have less cash, but you’ll be way happier in the long run. That is the lesson of the last several decades.
Better to subsist as they do. Never thought I would think that, but this globalist crap has to stop somewhere.
“With only 56,000 people and unknown amounts of mineral wealth under all that ice, they could be sitting on a gold mine, figuratively speaking. The per capita wealth could be a staggering amount.”
Because all voters know that they will take that wealth and divide it by 56,000. You know, just like how everyone in Alaska is fabulously wealthy.
A smart Greenlander would know they would get their areas trashed, lots of foreign workers, lots of annoying infrastructure along with it’s problems, and the profits would flow to Red China or Wall Street.
For your average Greenlander, it probably would be a net loss.
Call me a cynic, but China will not go away. The US will accept and cheer defeat. China will subvert and buy off as many people as they need to in order to win - for China.
Not cynical. China will not just go away. As you suggest, they will use the subversion route, just as they have elsewhere, from Africa to the Biden crime family.
“The Inuit Ataqatigiit party won 37% “
How many CCP supplied dollars does it take to sway a Greenland election? (The CCP enjoys China’s advantage in rare earth metals, and would obviously not like to see it dissipated, by Greenland or anywhere else.)
Their land... Their decision...
IMHO, they made the best decision...
Just look around the world... Why would they want to participate in all those problems?
We'll never know. They seem more interested in keeping their environment pristine than in mining the mineral wealth they have.
And just where do all the watermelons expect to conjure the rare earth minerals for their green new world order?
They’ll have to work hard to buy off Greenlanders. These aren’t stupid Africans with a corruption point at teh very top.
Somehow you’ll have to convince the average Greenland voter that they will -personally- benefit in a huge way.
And it’ll have to be huge enough to convince them that it’s worth losing their independence, and way of life outside the globalists. Tough sell. But you’re correct, they will keep trying.
And not far away they watched Iceland and it’s struggles against the bankers. I’m thinking they will be very cautious.
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you... what's next - the witch Hillary selling uranium rights to Russians?
With 56K inhabitants (less than the number of seats in a college football stadium,) The Greenies might vary well find themselves
overwhelmed by a Division of Chinese tourists.
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