Greenland - a geopolitical space on the global chess board?

[Noctu]

Wow, I'm surprised to see so many of you hating on Pres Trump. I think Acquiring Greenland is a brilliant move for a lot of reasons.
There are only 50k people there, who are about to make a windfall.
Greenland is an ice ball, very little infrastructure. The US would develop and improve, and likely start tapping resources. I cant see anyone living there not wanting that to happen. Its like using an outhouse, then someone gives you a million dollars and builds you a bathroom inside your house.
Denmark is giving them crumbs to survive. Becoming a US territory will bring them into the 21st century. We arent going to invade, we are buying it. Things are heating up, I wonder what the Cs will say about it.

I know three people who live in Greenland and all three of them do not want it to happen. And those people aren't even indigenous people.

Sovereignty is an important value for quite some people, as is nature.

 

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Bit of Geography

 

[Niall]

As far as I know Greenlanders are not enthusiastic. The deal Rutte(NATO) & Trump is for more American bases and extraction of rare minerals, to which I am not that sure that that will improve Greenlander's life.

They buying part it isn't either, Trump said he won't pay anything for the... taking, using, the parts of the land that will become US territory like a consulate of some sort.

With an American flag for all to see as Medvedev described it well.


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No way! Is that the actual cover of The Economist?!

Edit: It is!

 

[FM258]

I know three people who live in Greenland and all three of them do not want it to happen. And those people aren't even indigenous people.

Sovereignty is an important value for quite some people, as is nature.

3 people?? That’s not much of a scientific sample. So they would prefer to be ruled by Denmark?? Because they are not a sovereign country.

 

[Niall]

This is probably what's going on here:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2014099748425208203

Trump walks back Greenland tariffs threat, citing vague ‘deal’ over territory​

Donald Trump has walked back his threat to impose sweeping US tariffs on eight European countries, claiming he had agreed “the framework of a future deal” on Greenland.

Four days after vowing to introduce steep import duties on a string of US allies over their support for Greenland’s continued status as an autonomous Danish territory, the president backed down.

The US will not hit Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland with tariffs of 10% from 1 February after all, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. Over the weekend, he had also threatened to lift the tariffs to 25% from 1 June.

The threat had prompted widespread apprehension; criticism from senior European politicians, who declared they “will not allow ourselves to be blackmailed”; and warnings from economists.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-speech-rehashes-warped-ideas-of-us-supremacy
After what he called a “very productive” meeting with the Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, on Wednesday, Trump claimed he had formed “the framework” of a deal over Greenland, without providing more information.

“Based upon this understanding, I will not be imposing the Tariffs that were scheduled to go into effect on February 1,” the president said.

Trump did not give further details of the agreement, but said talks were continuing concerning a US missile defense shield that would be in part based in Greenland.

 

[FM258]

I think that the whole move is not about Greenland, but about restoring the USA as a world power. If that means destroying the NATO and the EU, even the better for the US. So, the last mentioned deal with the NATO will not pass in that form, because in this moment stronger NATO or the EU means weaker US. Russia and China are now to strong for the USA to exercise the power, but the NATO and the EU, which both means nothing to Trump, are ideal. And it will be really idiotic if US army doesn't take Greenland, because they can do it in some hour or two. And doing something just "because you can" is the sign of power in our world. The US needs that. So, I think that is "imminent".

We may never know the biggest reason but there are several. When you are almost 40 trillion in debt there are going to be choppy waters ahead. I find most people hate him for non policy reasons. And they oppose anything he says or does.

We have a strong president, this country would have been so screwed with Harris it’s not funny. I don’t agree with how he projects himself to the world…arrogant, narcissistic, petulant..,but he’s put us on a better path. I realize not everyone on this forum is American, maybe that’s where the hate is coming from.