Posted on 08/15/2019 2:42:41 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
WASHINGTON—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 deliberations, 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.
In meetings, at dinners and in passing conversations, Mr. Trump has asked advisers whether the U.S. can acquire Greenland, listened with interest when they discuss its abundant resources and geopolitical importance, and, according to two of the people, has asked his White House counsel to look into the idea.
Some of his advisers have supported the concept, saying it was a good economic play, two of the people said, while others dismissed it as a fleeting fascination that will never come to fruition. It is also unclear how the U.S. would go about acquiring Greenland even if the effort were serious.
With a population of about 56,000, Greenland is a self-ruling part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and while its government decides on most domestic matters, foreign and security policy is handled by Copenhagen. Mr. Trump is scheduled to make his first visit to Denmark early next month, although the visit is unrelated, these people said.
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The article says that we also considered buying Iceland once. Let’s go for broke.
Almost anywhere would be more productive than Puerto Rico.
Agree!
Make Greenland Great Again
Lordy the WSJ has devolved into a useless rag
Actually, Greenland is potentially a rich rich place. We should colonize it ourselves and call it Freepland.
It would become a MASSIVE capital idea IF “climate change” whatever it becomes is not (as we expect it will not be) a massive global catastrophe, even if Greenland becomes much more warmer on average than today. The possibilities could be huge.
But, what will they do to get the money? Sell a special edition of U.S. bonds with the dividend rate variable to the economic possibilities with Greenland? Would the bonds then be paid off out of royalty revenue on federal leases of land for mineral and fossil fuel exploration, development and production in Greeland.
And if all that is true and possible, then would Denmark even want to sell Greeland?
I think the idea is on one level great, and on another level impractical.
Nice idea but since US debt is larger than the economy forget about it.
Make it part of Maine
“Trump’s Folly”
Just gift Greenland to the liberals and then forcibly ship them all up there.
Straight trade for Puerto Rico, and toss in Epstein Island as a bonus?
More like Trump trolling... :)
Then Free Republic goes away.
We better hurry before global warming melts it down to a size that even Portugal could buy it. (Joke, lame but a joke nonetheless).
Is this the Journal or The Onion?
And how. Imagine the Soviets on our doorstep during the Cold War.
I love a guy who can think big and out of the proverbial box.
And I’d love to see the cost-benefit analysis his staff comes up with.
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