Posted on 01/24/2025 1:18:02 PM PST by Miami Rebel
During WWII a German weather station was installed on Greenland, in August of 1942.
A Greenland patrol found the station, engaged in a gun battle and retreated. Two members of the patrol were captured and one was killed.
Later the two members escaped, captured the German Commandant, and made their way back to Scoresbysund. They reported in and the German weather station was destroyed by American air power on 25 May of 1943.
There is a book detailing the events.
D-day was successful, in part, because the Allies had better meteorological information to make forecasts with.
Greenland has been making independence noises. They also have a number of minerals thare strategically important.
It took 53 posts to mention this.
China will not make horrendous phone calls, or money offers. When they are in a position to do so they will take whatever they want.
Greenlanders can negotiate with us now or surrender to China later. In fact, outright killing 56,000 people is not exactly a heavy lift for China.
It’s no different than FDR felt about Greenland in 1941, and that was even before the US officially entered the war.
Denmark can’t actually afford the payments and upkeep on Greenland. They also are quite racist towards the natives.
The US can afford it. Geenlanders would be quite happy with US tax rates and freedom to engage in real commerce and wealth extraction from raw materials.
Manifest destiny. The same motive that led to the acquisition of the Louisiana Purchase, the acceptance of the California and Texas republics into the United States, and the purchase of Alaska from Imperial Russia. We won the Phillipine Islands and Puerto Rico fair and square from the Spanish Empire in the Spanish-American War with the able help of Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, and the Panama Canal with hard work and the loss of some 38,000 lives lost to yellow fever.
The US does not want to BUY Greenland, just take over as their protector in exchange for an annual payment to be arranged with Denmark. Think of it as rent.
Same for Canada, pay them rent for our presence.
Greenland is part of NATO so it’s not going to China.
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China is already negotiating with Denmark for a base there.
Ukraine settlement - Putin keeps Crimea, US gets Greenland in return. Everybody wins.
Trump’s next demand: Tivoli Gardens and the Little Mermaid for Mar-al-Lago.
Greenland is considered a "self-governing country" within the "kingdom" of Denmark. Greenland's population is less than 60 thousand. Due to simple fertility demographics, that population is due to shrink rapidly now.
There will be many contenders for Greenland as time goes by. Conflict is assured. What form that conflict takes is as yet not assured. Tick tock.
He's issued a lot of executive orders. And they were mostly very good.
But it's too early to tell what they will accomplish in the long term. The fight has just begun.
There are less than 60K people to woo.
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55K. A poll found that 30,000 want to join the US.
Ozempic is their main export right now.
The year was 1494.
This treaty was signed by Spain and Portugal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas
They divided the world in half.
They had no intention of giving up one inch of their land agreed to by treaty. It was to be theirs forever.
I guess something went wrong...
Lol.
I think one was a thread on FR and I know one was on Fox.
I’ve seen that most people in Greenland do not want to be part of the US. If that is true,
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Not true; a recent poll found that from the population of 55K, 30,000 want to join the US.
Interesting information and history. Thanks to all posters of information and history.
Good Lord, not another Lesbian!
Get real. Denmark is not going to give Greenland to China.
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