It’s brilliant.
They laughed at Seward, too. China means to have it but historically America has first dibs.
Greenland is a self-governing region of Denmark, which colonized the 772,000-square-mile (two-million-square-kilometer) island in the 18th century, and is home to nearly 57,000 people, most of whom belong to the indigenous Inuit community.
Greenland: Trump’s Folly?
Call it the Greenland New Deal. President Trump’s interest in America purchasing the vast territory known as Greenland is being met with laughter and derision in Denmark, it’s ostensible owner. “It has to be an April Fool’s joke,” a former premier, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, twittered. Martin Lidegaard, of the Danish Social Liberal Party, is calling it “a grotesque proposal.” If it’s true, a spokesman for the Danish People’s Party reckons, it’s “final proof” that Mr. Trump “has gone mad.”Then again, too, one man’s insanity is another’s sense. Mr. Trump’s Greenland New Deal certainly makes a lot more sense to us than does the Democrats’ Green New Deal. Theirs is a socialistic scheme designed to extend government control over vast sectors of the economy. Mr. Trump’s is animated by a concern for America’s strategic and commercial interests. Think Louisiana Purchase. Think “Seward’s Folly,” as the deal for Alaska was called. Thirty-two years later, we struck gold in the Klondike.
It’s already being widely noted that Mr. Trump isn’t the first president to have expressed interest in Greenland. The Wall Street Journal, which broke the story of Mr. Trump’s interest in Greenland, notes that as far back as 1867 the State Department launched an inquiry into buying not only Greeland but also Iceland. After World War II, President Truman, the Journal also notes, offered to purchase Greenland for $100 million dollars. And those were Bretton Woods dollars, too.
Meaning that, back in Truman’s day, we’d have been obligated to redeem each of those dollars back for a 35th of an ounce of gold. In terms of real money, Truman was talking about proffering the equivalent of 2,857,142 ounces of gold. Today that would be 3.4 trillion one dollar notes in the Federal Reserve’s irredeemable electronic paper ticket money. It gives a new meaning to the word “green,” even if the truculent Danes declined to consider Truman’s offer.
Early in 1940, according to a post-war report in the New York Times, the sages at the Council on Foreign Relations started worrying about Greenland. In March, a study group of the Council issued a report warning that Denmark could fall to Germany and with it, Greenland. Germany invaded Denmark the following month. Three days later, FDR declared at a press conference that, as one report paraphrased him, “Greenland belonged to the American continent.” Denmark’s minister in Washington agreed.
In 1941, according to a report cited by the New York Times in 1946, the State Department took the position that Greenland by then was in the “area of the Monroe Doctrine,” which opposed European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. After the war, America inked an agreement with Denmark that obligated the Danes to fly the American flag side-by-side with Denmark’s standard in various agreed upon security areas. America was granted enormous sway. In light of this kind of history, Mr. Trump seems to be ahead of those who mock him.
In our case, we’ve been fermenting on this question for several years. This is owing to frantic warnings we would receive now and again from a Nordic friend, alarmed about scouting in Greenland by the Chinese communists interested in rare earths and other strategic riches beneath the ice. So it strikes us that the Danes are a bit too quick to scoff at Mr. Trump’s Danish démarche. Particularly if one looks at the value that could redound to Greenland’s native population.
Feature, after all, that there are a few more than 51,000 natives of Greenland. If America were to pay the inflated equivalent of what President Truman was prepared to pay, that could come out to something on the order of a mind-boggling $66 million a person. That might not be of much interest to the self-satisfied politicians in Copenhagen. It might, though, be of interest to the indigenous population of Greenland, for whom the Danes have done precious little over the years.
Just saying. The fact is that we’re not as trusting of the Danes as we used to be, and it’s not just because we went over the weekend to a wonderful summer stock performance of Hamlet. On the one hand, they’re a member of the North Atlantic Treaty. On the other, it is unclear whether they can be counted on; during the climactic years of the showdown with the Soviet regime, Denmark caviled at letting a American nuclear carrier dock in Denmark. There’s no reason for President Trump, or any other American leader, not to try to strike a deal for Greenland.
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The new Green SA troops
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_Rebellion
No, Greenland is not for sale. Trump’s nuts and so are you.
Granted that Greenland is not for sale,so why not just take it. I doubt if the daunted Danish military would put up much of a fight.
All you have to do is fly the flag of the Third Reich and the Danes will fold like a cheap suit!
Well, any person who cannot look past their own bias, will never see
the strategic and/or long-term value in ANYTHING, so your biased
uneducated comment is just THAT, unintelligent with a sprinkle of
liberalism, which is negative and condescending on a President that has
put America, A COUNTRY to be reckoned with again, back in the forefront of the world.
JEALOUS MUCH?
OR, maybe you are just living in a liberal world where NOTHING any one does who is not a Democrat, is what you call, “nuts’. NUTS IS WHAT THE DEMS DO ALL THE TIME (read the news) and/or NUTS is what foolish and dumb people say when they haven’t done their homework and/or NUTS is what ALL LIBERALS say when it WAS NOT THEIR IDEA, FIRST.
Who wants to defeat Trump? – Iran, China, ISIS, Al Qaeda, Omar, Tlaib, Hollywood, showbiz, crooked & Co
The other day I heard one commentator remark that we should buy Greenland and sell Puerto Rico. Greenland has lots of mineral wealth. Puerto Rico produces Democrats. Let’s all encourage President Trump in this endeavor.
We do not “own PR”. There are some things that just will not sell.
Of course we don’t own PR. They are just a massive drain on our economy and they do vote Democrat. I’ll tell you what I told the America hater above. Trump was aware that China was salivating over Greenland’s mineral wealth and also that Denmark spends a heft amount annually to maintain Denmark. Denmark apparently does not have the ability to extract that mineral wealth at this time. We do. We can also better defend Greenland from China than can Denmark. Certainly Greenland would help our overall security needs.
Denmark has NOT offered to sell Greenland. Not that they REALLY owned it to begin with.
France never REALLY owned the Louisiana Purchase area either. No one told the native Americans. Instead, we killed them for daring to live ON OUR LAND, before we got there.
“French explorer, Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle, sailed from the Great Lakes up the St. Lawrence River, through the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, to the mouth of the Mississippi River in 1682. There he raised a French flag and claimed all the lands drained by the Mississippi for France.”
………………..Give me a break, sticking a flag in the sand makes it legal??
Did I say one word about sticking a flag in sand (or ice) making it legal? No. The US has asked to purchase Greenland in the past, and been rebuffed. China is now sniffing around there because of the great mineral wealth. They are all over the world trying to gain control of minerals. As it now stands Denmark pays a heft annual cost to keep Greenland. Trump was probably thinking the US had a better shot at warding off China than does Denmark. That said, I thought President Trump sounded a bit childish cancelling his plans to go to Denmark in a few weeks just because of the admittedly rude rebuff he received about his offer.
FYI: I also don’t think people who manage to plant their feet on our soil are due Green Cards, Medicaid, housing assistance, food stamps, a monthly 20 lb. box of frozen beef (in my town), and assorted other goodies. We are overrun with Central Americans who drive nicer cars, have brand new clothes for themselves and all the kids, and are always pushing 2 overfull carts of food in the grocery store courtesy of the American taxpayer who is usually picking up three or four items.
Yup that’s how it worked then as the world got divided up…
However- right by might still carried the day + was how all native tribes in the Americas operated regularly- constant war, pillage, slavery, rape, torture, sacrifice, murder + genocide yes even cannibalism= why they were called savages.
Maybe you could buy Alberta. The present Fed Govt doesn’t like Alberta and would probably love to rid themselves of us. And we have lots of oil and willing workers.
Please, Mr. President! Trudeau has made me want to be American!
Deal.
Just curious. Why does the present fed govt. dislike Alberta? Do those willing workers fail to worship Trudeau?
Be great tho better to buy the whole convoluted socialist mess up there- just as WE should’ve bought Cuba waaay back.
America would love Alberta … but the Left Coast would hate it …
you and yours have a wonderful week Thistle!
Tsk! If a Democrat had suggested it they’d be all over it like white on rice.
STRATEGICALLY, it is brilliant. Financially, it is SUICIDE.
Yes “buy Greenland” and place Supermax prisons there. Watch them freeze to death after a prison break. Then toss them to the Orcas.
Or just put them down with a 9mm to the brain and call it a day. It will be much cheaper.
Comparing Alaska and Louisiana to Greenland is just plain silly. Both of the former are integral and
contiguous parts of the continental North America. It would make more sense for Canada to own Greenland. Knowing the rapacity of US capitalism and its deleterious effects on US territory, there is reason to fear the future of Greenland and its inhabitants if it falls into their hands.
I support Trump but I have concerns for his apparently cavalier attitude to the environment, which will be around long after he has left office.
Great idea + buy Can-Ada while at it- along with Cuba…
Be great eh…