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Trump says he’s sending hospital ship to Greenland

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Nithavela said:
It's possible that the hospital ship is sent to help greenlands sled dogs, which have been suffering from the unseasonably high temperatures preventing the use of sleds in many places. The dogs might benefit from psychological support and perhaps education in a different field of work.

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For Greenland's Sled Dogs, It Was a Troubling January

Rising temps from climate change melt the Arctic nation's ice, hampering its resourceful canines
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We should make it a demonstration of what the Greenlanders can expect to experience upon becoming subject to the US. Welcome them on board, treat them with no mention of cost then later smack them with large bills for care.
 
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What I really don't get is that when Trump says something truly galactically idiotic like this then there are so many people trying to spin it so that it sounds like a reasonable suggestion.

I mean, you can back the guy up as far as you like, but there must be a time when the only reasonable response would be: 'Well, that doesn't sound like a great idea. Buy hey, maybe his blood sugar was low or something.'

I didn't vote for our state premier. But do you want me to list the things that he's done that I'm really pleased about? And I did vote for our Prime Minister, but I can give you a reasonably long list of things that he's done that I most definitely don't like. Sometimes you have to give credit to the people that you didn't vote for. And sometimes you have to criticise those you do support who did get your vote.

Isn't this entirely normal?
 
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Stopped_lurking said:
They wouldn't prevent it from docking or stop people going there. Even if they did I don't know how feasible it would be to anchor in international waters either (I don't know the depths and length of anchor chains), my guess is that only a subset of places in international water around Greenland can be reached by the anchor chains. I think the sea is at it's most shallow along the northeast coast, that is also where the ice is.

The weather is also a big hindrance for a significant portion of the year, only the southwest coast is routinely accessible by boat. Then you are closish to Nuuk anyway. Sea Ice Today | National Snow and Ice Data Center


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The two Mercy-class hospital ships are 1980s conversions of 1970s supertankers - I don't think they're rated for ice at all
 
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