Regarding the mineral assets, we should be able to acquire rights to them with royalty payments
Just plant the
Stars and Stripes
And We Are Golden!
only an idiot seriously believes DJT would try to take GL by force....
including the possibility of replacing the $600 million in subsidies that Denmark gives the island with an annual payment of about $10,000 per Greenlander
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Greenland population as of Jan 1 2025 was 53,000 - now they get $11,320 per - so 47 will win them over by reducing the amount to $10,000 per?
Trump could’ve just proposed Greenland 99 year lease of more real estate. Fact is, Greenland wouldn’t be interested in becoming a 51st or 52nd state even if he bunged everyone there a million dollars each.
The Greenland population has a concept of social value that Donald Trump doesn’t share.
“We need your land and we’ll get it one way or another” is doing the opposite of “we’ve got a great product and we really want you to buy it”. But the best sales pitch here would simply be, “what do you want in return for letting USA increase the footprint of its bases and towns?”
Trump might even want to watch Batteries Not Included.
Lacey complaining not just about the holdout tenants but the demolition crews eating in the diner they’re supposed to be tearing down, doesn’t endear the audience to Lacey’s perspective. Lacey’s position is quite reasonable until frustration leads him to send the thugs in to influence the tenants.
In the end Lacey does end up getting most of what he wanted, albeit with the apartment block still standing, and the diner still open for business. Everyone wins.
That’s where it’ll end with Greenland, I expect. The US presence can expand, happily, as long as there’s a recognition that the people of Greenland, on their own home turf, do not want to be a 51st or 52nd state - threats and insults aren’t going to deliver a better outcome.
Whatever, Trump can just do the same thing Putin is doing with Ukraine, except there would be no casualties.
Especially if Trump and Putin can agree Ukraine is Russia and Greenland is USA, and Putin has to keep and Exile Z-boy to Siberia