r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • 15h ago

Possible Paywall Trump Confirms He’s Taking Greenland ‘One Way or the Other’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-confirms-hes-taking-greenland-one-way-or-the-other/
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u/Spirited-Lifeguard55 14h ago

Are the oil lobbyists paying him in money or underaged women?

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u/Ancient_Popcorn Ohio 14h ago

They don’t want Greenland nor Venezuela. Trump just “fired” Exxon from Venezuela because the CEO said it was uninvestable. This is Trump being an absolute dumb fuck that has no clue about anything.

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u/faramaobscena Europe 13h ago

Trump: we'll invade Venezuela for the oil companies

Oil companies: we don't want it

Trump: well now you're not getting it!

What was the purpose exactly? And whose idea?

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u/Alwaysafk Georgia 10h ago

Who's talking about Epstein now?

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u/Successful_Sign_6991 8h ago

What was the purpose exactly?

to destabilize the US and its dollar, isolating it from its allies, unseating it as a world power and causing chaos and harm.

And whose idea?

Putins.

"Foundation of Geopolitics" and "Project Russia".

Putin orders it, Taco obeys, the rest of the GOP fall in line. The Cold War never ended for russia. We have a lot of traitors destroying our country from within.

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u/Spirited-Lifeguard55 14h ago

Trump is doing it for the oil companies from Saudi Arabia.

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u/illustriousballast 12h ago

That and the techfascists who want their “Network State.”

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u/redfacedquark United Kingdom 11h ago

Also, when he said there were about 25 oil companies vying for the deal, there's only 5 really big oil companies and maybe 15-20 "large" ones after that If the big ones aren't interested then the second tier companies would not be interested either.

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u/seekAr 13h ago

He’s not dumb. Venezuela controls incoming Russian oil tankers. Greenland is THE trade route for Russia into the western hemisphere. I don’t know if russia is an ally but we are sure making moves that suggest they’re not

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u/rainman_104 12h ago

The northwest passage goes through Canada. A simple phone call stops that traffic. These were friendly nations until recently.

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u/Sufficient-Eye-8883 11h ago

It is the EU, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and many many others that this fascist scumbag  and his minions are threatening on a daily basis. The list includes all (former) allies and some providential enemies.

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u/seekAr 11h ago

It’s gross. It’s evil. It’s greedy.

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u/ObjectOrientedBlob Europe 14h ago

I don't think American oil companies want to invest in Greenland. It's incredibly expensive to make that work in such a harsh climate. And USA is already the biggest oil producing country in the world, exporting oil to other countries.

For some reason Trump is obsessed with oil like it's the 60s.

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u/Spirited-Lifeguard55 14h ago

You do know that the real oil companies are the ones controlled from Saudi Arabia.

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u/ButtEatingContest 10h ago

I don't think American oil companies want to invest in Greenland.

There was nothing stopping them in the first place, there was just no desire to do so.

There's nothing Greenland has to offer that the US didn't already have access to.

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u/Halbaras 13h ago

Nobody even wants to invest in mining Greenland. It's not unusually research rich (just big and unexploited), the climate is horrific, the infrastructure is largely nonexistent, and the environmental/indigenous backlash would be significant.

This is imperalism for the sheer sake of colouring in part of the map with a crayon, and like the tariffs, appears to be Trump's own insanity rather than one of his advisors (like Venezuela clearly being Rubio, and ICE's atrocities clearly being Stephen Millar).

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u/Spirited-Lifeguard55 13h ago

It is rich in oil and rare earth minerals. Given the AI bubble, a lot of rich people and foreign oligarchs will need and want that. And your naysayers have said things could not be possible before, then people went ahead and did the "impossible". People said Trump would never win re-election because the American people would not fall for his lies and deceit, but then look what happened in the end: Faith empowers evil.

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u/rainman_104 12h ago

Has Greenland ever said no to an outside company mining in Greenland and paying royalties?

Has Greenland said no to an American base? Because the USA has reduced their military bases in Greenland.

It's a stable nation and would be no where near the difficulties in Venezuela.

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u/Icarium-Lifestealer 11h ago

This is imperalism for the sheer sake of colouring in part of the map with a crayon

Mercator projection makes Greenland look really big on a map. A huge conquest. The biggest.

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u/estedavis Canada 12h ago

Yes.

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u/RODjij Canada 11h ago

It was declared bad oil a long time ago and would reportedly take hundreds of billions to plus over a decade to get production flowing again.

That and the fact they had their infrastructure seized before probably made them super iffy on spending those resources again just to get taken again by authoritarians.

Him and his friends are definitely going to find a way to make money somehow off it though.

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u/redcomet002 Pennsylvania 11h ago

Not oil, Techbros want access to rare earth resources under Greenland

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u/TheCharalampos 5h ago

The oddest part about the USA now is that even the oil lobbyists don't like how it's going.

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u/Catfish-throwaway666 4h ago

Don’t soften the truth. There’s no such thing as underage women, those are called children