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Just why? We don't need Greenland for security or anything else. That's some mid-20th-century notion of warfare. That's not how things work. The obvious answe
by jfengel 2y ago
Just why?
We don't need Greenland for security or anything else. That's some mid-20th-century notion of warfare. That's not how things work.
The obvious answer is that this is just more flooding-the-zone -- talking about something he doesn't really intend to do so that we overlook the things he's actually doing.
But I wonder if it's more than that. Perhaps it's the ego trip of having been told that this was a stupid idea, and therefore must prove it. And that's almost as scary -- that gets people killed. (Only "almost", because I find the complete dismantling of democracy even scarier, and that's what's going on.)
- n4r9 2y agoOther potential reasons: * Making a strong show against China and Russia * Creating a legacy of the largest US territorial acquisition since the Louisiana purchase * Feeling humiliated by the outright rejection in 2019 * Exploiting avenues for mineral resource extraction soon to be created by climate change