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Greenlandic politics is held captured by a small group of corrupt populists. The population outside the city elites lives in dire poverty with massive social pr
by chvid 7y ago
Greenlandic politics is held captured by a small group of corrupt populists. The population outside the city elites lives in dire poverty with massive social problems such as violence, incest, alcoholism ... And the Danish politicians are too coward to do anything about it.
Why do the Americans want to buy this place? We already let you do anything you want with it military wise. And the stuff you can dig out of the ground, you can dig it out other places much cheaper.
- pfisch 7y agoIf you recognize that the GOP only pretends they don't believe in global warming it makes more sense.
- javagram 7y agoTrump is all over the place, I don’t think anyone really knows what he believes. US interest in purchasing Greenland goes back a hundred years. It’s an important strategic location even without global warming - but yes, will become even more important as the world warms. The Chinese were trying to get in on it too and Trump is reflexively anti-Chinese.
- pfisch 7y agoI seriously doubt this idea came from Trump. I can imagine the person/group pitching it stroking his ego and convincing him to buy "trumpland" though.
- dba7dba 7y agoI believe it is Trump who wants to buy it, not US government.
- rapind 7y agoOr he's just floating distractions to flip the news cycle.