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To: Alas Babylon!

Good. Let’s buy it.

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Trump has offered over 700 Billion.

That seems high, but when you consider the daily INTEREST on our National Debt is almost 3 Billion.....


38 posted on 01/21/2026 7:52:50 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

The problem with the Freepers claiming that Greenland would really be worth $800 billion is that they would be betting the taxpayers money, not their own money.


43 posted on 01/21/2026 7:59:03 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Do you have evidence Trump offered $700 billion?

See: https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4363168/posts?page=173#173

Speaking of interest on our debt, how much would the daily interest be if we added another $700 billion?

Why buy Greenland when we can already have all the military we want there thanks to our 1951 treaty with Denmark? We used to have more bases there during WWII and the Cold War. Trump could have reactivated those bases and/or built new ones anytime he wanted during his five years in office. He still can. No need to buy the cow when you can get the milk for free.


59 posted on 01/21/2026 8:32:44 AM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Elon Musk is worth about $700 billion. I think he should buy it!


60 posted on 01/21/2026 8:35:20 AM PST by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated. )
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To: Responsibility2nd

It’s retarded when the entire cost of running ops even when America had 20 bases there didn’t top $700m a year.

You can keep the existing deal for a millennium for the same price as the $700bn one-off spend.


94 posted on 01/21/2026 12:19:28 PM PST by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe" - Holmes to Watson, A Scandal in Bohemia)
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