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Trump Eyes Purchase Of Greenland
The Wallstreet Journal ^ | Aug. 15, 2019

Posted on 08/16/2019 2:33:03 AM PDT by Helicondelta

President Trump made his name on the world’s most famous island. Now he wants to buy the world’s biggest.

The idea of the U.S. purchasing Greenland has captured the former real-estate developer’s 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 America’s 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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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: china; denmark; europeanunion; globalwarminghoax; greenland; greennewdeal; nato; russia
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To: sauropod

Let me amend that.

Greenland is an autonomous territory that is imposing its own rules and regulations, and acting like it is a sovereign nation.


21 posted on 08/16/2019 3:47:32 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: Rapscallion

And if Globaal Warming it real, then...


22 posted on 08/16/2019 3:53:18 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: sauropod

Methinks this just another junk piece to suggest Trumps thinking is impaired and that he lacks the demeanor and rationality to be President. Oh wait, there’s an Amendment for that. Just rats at play.


23 posted on 08/16/2019 3:56:31 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (He, had the best mom - ever.)
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To: sauropod

didn’t go too well for the Norse Viking colonists.


24 posted on 08/16/2019 3:57:49 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (He, had the best mom - ever.)
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To: P.O.E.
Why pay land prices for a bunch of water.

Fresh water. Stock it was bass and trout. It will be worth every penny.

25 posted on 08/16/2019 4:02:09 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (“They are openly planning to murder you. Have a plan to prevent that.”)
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To: Helicondelta

Putin just shi’ite himself...


26 posted on 08/16/2019 4:04:23 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: virgil
I think it’s a great idea. With global warming, it will be a great vacation destination some day. A Florida in the north.

I do not buy the extreme dating or the scare, but,

Fossil DNA Proves Greenland Once Had Lush Forests ;

Ancient Greenland was green. New Danish research has shown that it was covered in conifer forest and had a relatively mild climate. The research is painting a picture which is overturning all previous assumptions about biological life and the climate in Greenland. The findings also show evidence of ice in Greenland during the Eemian interglacial period 125,000 years ago, which indicates that although we are now confronted with global warming, the whole ice sheet will probably not melt and bring about the tremendous sea-level rises which have been the subject of so much discussion.

The research results are the first direct proof that there was forest in southern Greenland. Furthermore Willerslev found genetic traces of insects such as butterflies, moths, flies and beetles. But when was that? According to most scientific theories to date, all of southern Greenland and most of the northern part were ice-free during the last interglacial period 125,000 years ago, when the climate was 5 degrees warmer than the interglacial period we currently live in.

27 posted on 08/16/2019 4:08:11 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: epluribus_2

From Wikipedia:

“Following World War II, the United States developed a geopolitical interest in Greenland, and in 1946 the United States offered to buy the island from Denmark for $100,000,000. Denmark refused to sell it.[55][56] In the 21st century, the United States, according to WikiLeaks, remains highly interested in investing in the resource base of Greenland and in tapping hydrocarbons off the Greenlandic coast.[57][58]

In 1950, Denmark agreed to allow the US to reestablish Thule Air Base in Greenland; it was greatly expanded between 1951 and 1953 as part of a unified NATO Cold War defense strategy. The local population of three nearby villages was moved more than 100 kilometres (62 mi) away in the winter. The United States tried to construct a subterranean network of secret nuclear missile launch sites in the Greenlandic ice cap, named Project Iceworm. It managed this project from Camp Century from 1960 to 1966 before abandoning it as unworkable. The Danish government did not become aware of the program’s mission until 1997, when they discovered it while looking for records related to the crash of a nuclear-equipped B-52 bomber at Thule in 1968.”


28 posted on 08/16/2019 4:10:27 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: epluribus_2

Also:

“The European Union has urged Greenland to restrict People’s Republic of China development of rare-earth projects, as China accounts for 95% of the world’s current supply. In early 2013, the Greenland government said that it had no plans to impose such restrictions.[100]”


29 posted on 08/16/2019 4:14:20 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Helicondelta

It would be incredibly brilliant for the U.S. to buy Greenland. For $116B we could wipe out Denmark’s entire national debt. Inexpensive for us and game changing for Denmark.


30 posted on 08/16/2019 4:15:41 AM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: P.O.E.

“Why pay land prices for a bunch of water.”

An internal lake such as that only boosts prices of the surrounding lake front properties. Also...

Two words...house boats.


31 posted on 08/16/2019 4:20:33 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Helicondelta

I’ll pay $100.


32 posted on 08/16/2019 4:32:20 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: Helicondelta

This article has already been posted, seeing 164 replies: https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3772094/posts


33 posted on 08/16/2019 4:34:43 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: Revolutionary

Not to mention that Greenland has been talking about independence from Denmark, thus Denmark might lose the possibility of selling it in the future.


34 posted on 08/16/2019 4:36:21 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Helicondelta
Someone design a new flag with 50 stars and an iceberg.

35 posted on 08/16/2019 4:38:31 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Rapscallion

This could be “Alaska II”. It was called “Seward’s folly”, but it was an American tradition. We also bought the Louisiana Purchase and the Gadsen Purchase.

Go for it!


36 posted on 08/16/2019 4:38:52 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: Helicondelta

The US debt is already greater than the annual economy. Congress still overspending.

Forget it.


37 posted on 08/16/2019 4:40:02 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: Helicondelta

Hahahahahahahahaha

Leftist heads are spinning and exploding!


38 posted on 08/16/2019 4:59:41 AM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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To: sauropod

No, it is not a sovereign country. It is a self governing province of the Kingdome of Denmark; all foreign policy decisions are run out of Denmark, local policy is made in Greenland.


39 posted on 08/16/2019 5:00:01 AM PDT by Freeport (The proper application of high explosives will remove all obstacles.)
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To: fruser1

Even if we paid a trillion dollars for it it would pay for itself many many many times over.


40 posted on 08/16/2019 5:01:47 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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