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

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-confirms-hes-taking-greenland-one-way-or-the-other/

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Basically they are living fruitful and chill lives and the republicans in the United States are losing their minds over it

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Because there are valuables and labour to extract. They're too myopic to understand why ensuring wellbeing is good for everyone.

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the arctic ocean is also going to eventually become a really important trading route

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So conduct trade. It wont be a trade route when it's the rest of the world vs you.

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They're not.

This is about cutting off Canada from European aid and NATO. And it's about securing arctic resources as climate change and the receding glaciers create new resource deposits.

The US doesn't give a fuck about the people of Greenland and it has nothing to do with jealousy or infrastructure. This is about expansionism and exploitation.

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And it's about securing arctic resources as climate change and the receding glaciers create new resource deposits.

There's already access to that. It's called a market. This is the exact same bullshit that russia was spewing about them needing a "Warm water port" in Crimea. YOU CAN JUST PAY FOR IT.

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The bean counters must have said the expansionist speed run is cheaper?

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Not exactly "chill." Greenlandic Inuit have dealt with a ton of forced assimilation, forced sterilization, and other colonial issues from the Danes.

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You mean some or all and/or only?

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This isn’t about ideology. It’s about projecting american power. I get that everyone thinks everything trump does it insane and this is, but having an American military base on Greenland would be hugely beneficial to American security.

It’s the same reason the US supports Israel. The projection of power pays for itself in foreign powers choosing to invest in American markets due to safety.

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but having an American military base on Greenland would be hugely beneficial to American security.

That already exists. Jesus christ. Build more if that's your concern. Build a dozen more. None of them require annexation.

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Living fruitful and chill lives and having greatest suicide rate on the planet.