Posted on 08/16/2019 2:33:03 AM PDT by Helicondelta
President Trump made his name on the worlds most famous island. Now he wants to buy the worlds biggest.
The idea of the U.S. purchasing Greenland has captured the former real-estate developers imagination, according to people familiar with the discussions, who said Mr. Trump has, with varying degrees of seriousness, repeatedly expressed interest in buying the ice-covered autonomous Danish territory between the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans.
U.S. officials view Greenland as important to American national-security interests. A decades-old defense treaty between Denmark and the U.S. gives the U.S. military virtually unlimited rights in Greenland at Americas northernmost base, Thule Air Base. Located 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle, it includes a radar station that is part of a U.S. ballistic missile early-warning system. The base is also used by the U.S. Air Force Space Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command.
The U.S. has sought to derail Chinese efforts to gain an economic foothold in Greenland. The Pentagon worked successfully in 2018 to block China from financing three airports on the island.
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LOL!
Even bigger waste of time. They're not going to allow massive mining there.
I was thinking about Alaska, too. On a show I saw yesterday everyone was saying, “tsk tsk”, and shaking their heads at Trump’s idiocy. I thought they’d have been doing the same thing when we bought Alaska.
Learn a little about what is under your feet. No, its not solid at all.
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LOL
Enlighten me, of Great One. Explain to all out here how the continents "drift".
Are you a "mantle convection" fan, or are you a supporter of the fine old "theory of plate tectonics" ..... continents riding on the good old plates of the earth's lithosphere?
Cogitate away.
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By the way, genius, who said the earth was all "solid" under the surface?
Learn to read carefully, jdsteel, for "a reader lives a thousand lives before he dies".
Green New Deal....Trump style. Buying Greenland!
From your post, and I quote...
Aren’t they all CONNECTED TO THE EARTH (that which is under the top layer) ..... DOWN TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH.
Perhaps you need to explain....on the other hand, dont. You are just not worth it.
I never said the earth was "solid" all the way to the center. It's hot down there ...... lots of Dems. hanging around.
Arent they all CONNECTED TO THE EARTH (that which is under the top layer) ..... DOWN TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH.
Connected by what, then? Bubblegum?
BTW, ever been to the Garden of the Gods?
Scroll down to Geological Formations.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_the_Gods
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From the article: "Many native peoples have reported a connection to Garden of the Gods, including Apache, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Lakota, Pawnee, Shoshone, and Ute people."
Maybe Lizzie Warren has a connection.
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By the way if you are a believer in "continental shift", do you happen to be a "Peak Oil" follower too?
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How far down do you think this "shifting" took place.... somewhere in the mantle or the outer core?
If these continents "shifted", how did they know where to stop (maybe they used your chewing gum). On what "surface" did these wandering land masses settle?
To me these theories of continental shift are all as fanciful as Bill DiBlasio being President of the United States.
How can one just go ahead and buy another country?
Cash,check,credit,PayPal?
>>>> "Rolling back continental drift how much closer to the equator was it then?"
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So, you surmise that Greenland may have been greener once BECAUSE it was closer to the equator.
lol
Wow, you are a particularly troubled person.
Denying that there is such a thing as continental drift is a new one to me. How do you explain earthquakes?
No, wait...ignore that. I really don’t care.
It seems you have the haunting need to inform people how things are without any substantial evidence.
Maybe if DJT waits long enough Greenland will drift back down to us and it can hook up with Maine.
;-)
Funny, I dont even care to read your posts when you are replying to me.
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