Greenland

[Spekkio]

I read an article recently that posited that this is Trump’s “real estate” mind at work. In short, he can’t justify paying for improvements if he doesn’t “own” it. Apparently in staff conversations Trump repeatedly brings up past American investments in NATO that the U.S. no longer controls and considers that lost money.

Not saying it is sound logic, just his reasoning.

I get the desire to own it, I don't get the desire or rationale to use coercion.

If we're using the business venture analogue, Trump knows that coercion ends with an expensive lawsuit.

 

[WhiskeySierra6]

I get the desire to own it

Can you unpack that? I initially had the same opinion as you, but the more I looked into it the more I realized that there doesn't seem to be an objective benefit to owning it beyond the access we already enjoy today. I'm open to having my mind changed. I'm just not seeing it.

 

[sevenhelmet]

Can you unpack that? I initially had the same opinion as you, but the more I looked into it the more I realized that there doesn't seem to be an objective benefit to owning it beyond the access we already enjoy today. I'm open to having my mind changed. I'm just not seeing it.

That’s because there isn’t a valid, objective argument for the US owning Greenland. The arguments to back that up are all over this thread.

 

[Spekkio]

Can you unpack that? I initially had the same opinion as you, but the more I looked into it the more I realized that there doesn't seem to be an objective benefit to owning it beyond the access we already enjoy today. I'm open to having my mind changed. I'm just not seeing it.

I mean, it revolves around not having to pay Denmark for whatever raw materials can be mined there.

But I'm not going to defend the policy because it's not defensible.

Trump certainly did a 180 from his neo-isolationist campaign.

 

[CommodoreMid]

He was never an isolationist. He’s a unilateralist.

 

[ChuckMK23]

 

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“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America....The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.”