A big ol' bayonet pointed right at Vlad Putin.
Posted on 08/16/2019 10:03:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s almost as if they’re already American, though! The business of Greenland is business, its leadership emphasized after rumors swirled yesterday that Donald Trump wanted the US to acquire the island from Denmark. The third try is not the charm, Greenland residents told CNN, and not charming either:
President Donald Trump has on multiple occasions brought up buying Greenland from the Danish government and the White House counsel’s office has looked into the possibility, two sources told CNN on Thursday.
The island’s government, however, said in a statement Friday it’s not going to happen: “Greenland is not for sale.” …
“They tried to buy us in 1867, during Second World War, and now they are trying again,” local Kulusuk resident Bent Abeelsen told CNN. “Not gonna happen.”
Greenland’s foreign ministry adopted a more diplomatic tone in discouraging looky-loos. The government also issued a friendly statement thanking us for our interest, but no thanks:
#Greenland is rich in valuable resources such as minerals, the purest water and ice, fish stocks, seafood, renewable energy and is a new frontier for adventure tourism. We're open for business, not for sale❄️🗻🐳🦐🇬🇱 learn more about Greenland on: https://t.co/WulOi3beIC
— Greenland MFA 🇬🇱 (@GreenlandMFA) August 16, 2019
A Government of Greenland spokesperson reiterated that the island was not for sale when approached for comment by ABC News.
“We have a good cooperation with USA, and we see it as an expression of greater interest in investing in our country and the possibilities we offer,” the spokesperson said. “Of course, Greenland is not for sale. Because of the unofficial nature of the news, the Government of Greenland has no further comments.”
Greenland’s taking it with at least some good humor, and why not? When was the last time anyone read about Greenland as a vacation destination, or … as anything at all other than a frozen wasteland? This is the best PR boost their tourism and investment businesses might have imagined, even if it’s likely only to last a few days.
Not everyone was so flattered, however. NBC News went out and found several unhappy Greenlanders to balance out the government’s friendly-yet-firm message. They had to trawl Twitter to find most of the anger:
“I think we take it as a sick joke by a crazy president,” said Anna Kûitse Kúko, 63, who has lived in Tasiilaq nearly all her life and teaches English here. The remark was one of several from local residents who reacted with a mixture of mockery and anger to the reports, which originated with an article in The Wall Street Journal on Thursday. …
Online, locals mocked the idea of Trump’s interest in buying their homeland.
“Wow I didn’t know trump knew greenland existed,” tweeted Miki Fleischer from Nuuk, the nation’s capitol.
“Oh please God no,” wrote Emil Malta in response to the idea.
Another resident reposted a parody photo of a traditional Greenlandic landscape unexpectedly dwarfed by a glittering gold Trump Tower.
That was actually a parody by Hot Air pal Jon “Exjon” Gabriel, which deserves an honorable mention here:
Greenland in 10 years. pic.twitter.com/akqWowauyu
— jon gabriel (@exjon) August 15, 2019
Sadly, this now appears to be just another real-estate pipe dream, but it’s tough to imagine that anyone took the idea all that seriously in the first place, let alone Trump. He built his fortune on real estate, and it’s certainly believable that he’d bring that approach to dealing with American security, in which Greenland is an important piece. This sounds like spitballing at most — fun spitballing, perhaps, but spitballing nonetheless.
Trump wants Greenland because adding its expanse to the territory of the US will enable us to recalculate the average temperature in the US to a lower absolute level.
Greenlad costs Denmark something like $600 million per year.
1) Media makes up a story
2) Same media mocks the story it made up
3) Repeat
ROFL Actually it looks nice there ROFL
“They are valuable for their rare earth minerals, a key component to manufacturing energy dense capacitors and batteries.
They’re also important because they are literally one of the only developed sources of rare earth minerals outside of China and not held by a Chinese corporation.”
This is exact reason Trump may be interested in Greenland. Greenland is a hedge against China’s monopoly on the rare earth market. Without those critical materials many of our advanced technologies would not work. In late 2010 China tightened the supply of dysprosium and the price skyrocketed. Dysprosium is critical in the manufacturing of high temperature permanent magnets. They go in everything. Several pounds worth in every car, tons in larger generators.
In the current trade war with China, one of their big weapons is the control of the rare earth market.
I’m looking at the replies on this thread and wonder how many people have looked at Greenland on a globe? It’s strategically located in the North Atlantic, is near very vital sea lanes to the Arctic and both China and Russia want to develop the Arctic area. I know men from World War II who were stationed there. I agree that Greenland is living off Denmark (this was a subplot on the series Borgen with Sidse Babette Knudsen), but it is a serious offer as they have no defense.
Iceland doesn't have any of that. Neither does Luxembourg.
Could be a negotiating strategy.
You need someone to negotiate with, don't you? Neither Denmark or Greenland are interested in the idea.
Since Greenland is not available then maybe it is worth looking at buying Canada?
So they say. But dangle $25 billion in front of them , enough to pay every Greenlander $500,000, then they might be.
My dad, when he was in the AF, had a TDY at Thule AFB.
And, to add to your point, Greenland makes Denmark an Arctic Ocean nation along with US [by reason of Alaska], Canada, Norway and Russia). If these five countries were to agree, we could divide up the economic rights of that ocean. (There would still be freedom of the seas for navigation.)
I can tell you the citizens of Newfoundland and Labrador would leap at the chance to leave Canada and become our 51st state.
” No Mr. President! You cannot buy our rock infested shithole!” That is why we are called Greenland....because there’s nothing green...wait a second. We just woke up and came to our senses. We are Danish and this makes no sense. Our brains are frozen. Please send more global warming!”
How much would it take to sell you to China?
They ridiculed Sewards Folly.
can you imagine?
District of Corruption.
Larri?
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