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Greenland Canada & Denmark

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by peleincubus, Jul 11, 2019.

  1. peleincubus

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    Why does Canada does not attack Denmark for this territory? I’m sure they are thinking about it.
     
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  2. Dr of Dunk

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    Canada doesn't attack.
     
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  3. Jontro

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    canada apologizes for not giving their territory instead
     
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  4. Buck Turgidson

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    When Greenland actually turns green you know we're all ****ed.
     
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    Because it is uninhabitable. I suppose their could be oil there. Has Canada ever researched for that in their Northern areas?
     
  6. Buck Turgidson

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    It was never economically viable to drill up there (people spent several billion dollars to try and make it work back 30-40 years ago or so) until the recent fracking revolution. So...yes, Canada has stuff, just like the rest of the Arctic.
     
  7. GIGO

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    a Canadian attack


     
  8. peleincubus

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    Is it cool if I bump this thread once a day for year to ensure this interesting discussion continues?
     
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    Greenland Geopolitical assessment :

    based on whatever comes first

    • lt will become a Chinese property.
    • If Siberian prisons were filled with prisoners to maximum capacity,it will be a Russian land
    • if Nunavut province population which is larger than Mexico, exceeded 40,000 within the next century,it will eventually be another empty Canadian territory
     
  10. Deckard

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    It definitely won't become Chinese territory. The Danes and Canadians would come together, raise their arms, and smite them.
     
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  11. Xerobull

    Xerobull You son of a b!tch! I'm in!

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    As you can see, the only way you can actually get to Europe from North America is via Greenland. Very important piece of real estate.

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    Because they're saving up loonies in order to invade and civilise their Southern neighbors.
     
  14. Deuce

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    A lot of beachfront property in Greenland!
     
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    Greenland will be the new Alaska. Think of the possibilities!
     
  16. superfob

    superfob Mommy WOW! I'm a Big Kid now.

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    Wonder if Donald knows it's not actually green.
     
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  17. peleincubus

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    Another Greenland Update.

    No thanks, we're not for sale, aghast Greenland tells Trump

    Donald Trump may have expressed an interest in acquiring Greenland for the US, but Denmark thinks the idea is frankly insane and Greenlanders have pointed out their home is not actually for sale.

    According to the Wall Street Journal, the US president has asked his aides and the White House counsel to look into the possibility of buying the world’s largest island, a largely autonomous country of the kingdom of Denmark.

    The Greenland government was diplomatic, saying it had a good working relationship with the US and saw the inquiry as “an expression of general greater interest in investing in our country and its opportunities”. But it added firmly: “Greenland is obviously not for sale.”

    In comments echoed in somewhat stronger terms by other politicians in both Greenland and Denmark, Ane Lone Bagger, Greenland’s foreign minister, confirmed the country was “open for business, but not for sale”.

    Aaja Chemnitz Larsen, an MP from the Inuit Ataqatigiit party, Greenland’s second largest, said the response was “a ‘no thanks’ from here”. The island was not “a commodity that could be sold”, she said, and it was “tremendously uncomfortable to hear it discussed in such terms”.

    Larsen told the Berlingske newspaper it would be better all round for Greenland to stay with Denmark and eventually be granted full independence. “If we were bought by the US, our welfare system would be dismantled and fundamental changes would be made to Greenlandic society,” she said. “We’d be crushed.”

    There is a large majority of support for independence in Greenland, although little certainty about how the country would survive without funding from Denmark.

    Larsen said a majority of Greenlanders “clearly think it is better to have a relationship to Denmark than the US in the long term.” Trump’s reported interest in the country was not flattering, she said, because it was “Greenland’s geostrategic location that he’s interested in. Not the country itself, or Greenlanders.”

    Eighty per cent of Greenland’s 836,000 sq miles (2.16m sq km ) are covered in ice, and its 56,000 inhabitants are concentrated mainly around the coastlines and in the capital, Nuuk. The island has home rule from Denmark in most domestic matters but Copenhagen is in charge of defence and foreign affairs.

    Greenland is also home to the Thule air base, the US military’s northernmost outpost, built in 1951. About 750 miles inside the Arctic Circle, the radar and listening station employs 600 personnel and is an important part of America’s global defence system.

    Ordinary Greenlanders were outraged. “They tried to buy us in the past, back in the 19th century, and again after the second world war,” one resident, Bent Abeelsen, said. “Now they are trying again. But it’s not going to happen”.

    Else Mathiesen told local media Trump’s plans betrayed “an age-old mindset ... You can’t just buy an island or a people. This sounds like something from the era of slavery and colonial power, when you could just take over a country.”

    For Indalik Høegh, the president’s plan was “just inside his head”. The island’s economy was “really not so good – it’s not surprising many Greenlanders move to Denmark. But really, it’s impossible to see Greenland becoming American.”

    Danish politicians, for their part, reacted with astonishment. “It must be an April Fools’ Day joke … but totally out of season,” tweeted the former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, who heads the centre-right opposition.

    Søren Espersen, of the nationalist Danish People’s party, said that if the story was true, “it is definitive proof that [Trump] has gone crazy. I have to say it as it is: the idea that Denmark would sell 50,000 citizens to the US is completely insane.”

    Martin Lidegaard, of the Social Liberal party, described Trump’s reported remarks as “hopefully a joke, but otherwise a terrible idea”, while Uffe Elbæk, the leader of the progressive Alternative party, said it made Trump’s upcoming official visit to Copenhagen “the most absurd in living memory”.

    Trump plans to make his first formal visit to Denmark on 2 September, meeting the country’s new Socialist prime minister, Mette Frederiksen – who herself will make her first official visit to Greenland next week – and attending a state banquet with Queen Margrethe II.

    Pernille Skipper, of the Red-Green Alliance, said it “says a lot about Trump that he actually thinks you can buy a whole country and a whole people. Greenland is the Greenlanders, and this is not the 19th century. Not for sale.”

    Danes were not the only non-Greenlanders to express dismay. “Oh dear lord. As someone who loves Greenland, has been there nine times to every corner and loves the people, this is a complete and total catastrophe,” tweetedRufus Gifford, a former US ambassador to Denmark.

    Denmark has, though, sold territories in the past. With the blessing of their inhabitants, it ceded the then Danish West Indies – now the US Virgin Islands – to the US in 1917 for $25m. The US also weighed buying Greenland in 1946 for $100m, after flirting with the idea of swapping land in Alaska for strategic parts of the island.


    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/16/greenland-not-for-sale-trump-interest-in-purchasing
     
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  19. Buck Turgidson

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    He doesn't believe in climate change, yet he's banking on it turning green. Interesting play.
     

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