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A local drug lord likes your daughter. He offers to purchase her for a load of cash. He threats to kill your entire family to get her if you refuse. You do the

by tmcz26 9mo ago

A local drug lord likes your daughter. He offers to purchase her for a load of cash. He threats to kill your entire family to get her if you refuse. You do the pragmatic thing and sell her to him so you can save the rest of your family? Doubt so. For countries, land has the same value of a family member. You don’t sell, you don’t risk it, you don’t let anyone touch it. Or else everything else falls apart.

nemo44x 9mo ago
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- tmcz26 9mo ago
  You can’t provide properly for your family. The drug lord has a fortune. He can put her in the top colleges, fly her around the world, buy any car she wants - when she is old enough to drive. Don’t me a bad dad, sell your daughter to the drug lord.
- TrackerFF 9mo ago
  Other than USA at the moment, who exactly should Greenland be afraid of? If for whatever reason Russia would invade Greenland, then Denmark will invoke article 5. Even if US ignores that, the rest of Europe would fight Russia on Greenland, which in turn would spill over to Europe, and WW3 is a thing. When the US argues that Greenland is defenseless without them, it's the same as the mafia telling a shop owner that he's defenseless without their protection - when in reality it is the mob who's the threat. Furthermore it doesn't mater if some Greenlanders want to join the US, it is a democracy. The majority would want it. And by any measure right now, the majority do not want it.
  - nemo44x 9mo ago
    No one is fighting over the 30k people in Greenland. They are a colony of Denmark today and the argument is by what right? This is precedent. If the USA believes it is necessary to her security to liberate Greenland from Danish colonialism then what leg do the Danes stand on? They have a greater right to colonial rule?
    - TrackerFF 9mo ago
      Stephen Miller, is that you? Yes people are going to fight, even if it’s a losing battle. There’s no scenario where Denmark simply lays down, or where the citizens of Greenland will just let the US roll over. That’s a fantasy being perpetuated by the far-right, and swallowed whole by clueless Americans high on American exceptionalism.
- deeg 9mo ago
  What makes you think that indigenous, non white people will do well in the US?

by tmcz26 9mo ago

nemo44x 9mo ago

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tmcz26 9mo ago
You can’t provide properly for your family. The drug lord has a fortune. He can put her in the top colleges, fly her around the world, buy any car she wants - when she is old enough to drive. Don’t me a bad dad, sell your daughter to the drug lord.
TrackerFF 9mo ago
Other than USA at the moment, who exactly should Greenland be afraid of? If for whatever reason Russia would invade Greenland, then Denmark will invoke article 5. Even if US ignores that, the rest of Europe would fight Russia on Greenland, which in turn would spill over to Europe, and WW3 is a thing. When the US argues that Greenland is defenseless without them, it's the same as the mafia telling a shop owner that he's defenseless without their protection - when in reality it is the mob who's the threat. Furthermore it doesn't mater if some Greenlanders want to join the US, it is a democracy. The majority would want it. And by any measure right now, the majority do not want it.
- nemo44x 9mo ago
  No one is fighting over the 30k people in Greenland. They are a colony of Denmark today and the argument is by what right? This is precedent. If the USA believes it is necessary to her security to liberate Greenland from Danish colonialism then what leg do the Danes stand on? They have a greater right to colonial rule?
  - TrackerFF 9mo ago
    Stephen Miller, is that you? Yes people are going to fight, even if it’s a losing battle. There’s no scenario where Denmark simply lays down, or where the citizens of Greenland will just let the US roll over. That’s a fantasy being perpetuated by the far-right, and swallowed whole by clueless Americans high on American exceptionalism.
deeg 9mo ago
What makes you think that indigenous, non white people will do well in the US?