To: BenLurkin
I believe the Danes offered to sell us Greenland after WWII. We declined because we didn't wish to be seen as "imperialistic."
Stupid virtue signaling even then.
2 posted on
04/07/2021 12:24:34 PM PDT by
pierrem15
("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
Like many Greenlanders, Inuit Ataqatigiit does not oppose mining but also has a strong environmental focus wants more free money
4 posted on
04/07/2021 12:28:32 PM PDT by
dsrtsage
(Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
To: pierrem15
Other way around. The US wanted Greenland as a strategic Cold War base. We made an offer to the Danes... they said ‘no’.
5 posted on
04/07/2021 12:30:03 PM PDT by
Tallguy
To: pierrem15
I believe the Danes offered to sell us Greenland after WWII. We declined because we didn't wish to be seen as "imperialistic." Other way around. The U.S. offered Denmark $100 million for Greenland in 1946 and Denmark said 'no'.
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