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Huh? We already have more troops in Greenland than Denmark does. I think it's pretty clear that if we wanted to expand our defense presence there would be no objection. We don't need to own Greenland to do pretty much anything we're likely to want. This is Trump's equivalent of Putin's desire to own Ukraine.
And on schedule as agreed during Obama's presidency. Except for two major counties, Spain and Italy if I remember correctly. They we could point a finger at, everyone else was at 2% or above.
What imperialism? The one where Greenland has a path to full independence and one where the PM of Greenland says that they choose Denmark over the USA?
Except that Greenland NOR Denmark wants the US to have Greenland and if Trump chooses to keep pressing the issue something tells me other countries will not be all he have to worry about I could see it getting awfully violent awfully quickly over here. I could even see some members of the military basically saying take me to court if you want to but that is the ONLY way you will keep "control" of me.
If the world were to gang up on the US I do not think we would stand much of a chance (particularly if our own people and military defacted in any large numbers. Which considering that the number of Americans in polls that oppose military action in Greenland I have seen numbers as LOW as 62% and as high as 96% including a sizeable percentage of Republicans I think that would probably be something that could reasonably happen.
Regardless of future "promises", Greenland is currently under the control of Danish imperialism. Facts are facts.
yes and Denmark nor Greenland wishes for that to change in any way OTHER than Greenland independence.
You're talking about Greenland; I was talking about something else. I also don't want to take over Greenland because of the costs involved in securing this whole area; I'd like the focus to be on South America with our money. So far EU has talked the talk. I want to see them walk. Seems they are struggling to provide for Ukraine, and now have to build a navy?
I support the Greenlanders having the freedom to make decisions about their own country themselves. It seems that you don't. That doesn't appear to tie in with your earlier support of liberty. Taking someone else's country (like Russia is trying to do with Ukraine) is the very opposite of liberty.
I'd like to think that any suggestion to 'take over Greenland' would be rejected out of hand as being completely immoral. As opposed to 'Gee, we shouldn't do it because it'll cost too much'.
We're not talking about "taking" though. This isn't so much about ownership either, as nobody is going to bulldoze people's homes, and rebuild...It's just a shift in governance.
Do you think Greenland is capable of supporting itself independently? My understanding is that it would require jumping many difficult hurdles to do so. Economically, it seems highly unlikely to be successful.
