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The sad thing is there's an obvious path forward if America wants to control Greenland. 1. Campaign for Greenland's independence, and apply pressure on Denmar
by bryanlarsen 10mo ago
The sad thing is there's an obvious path forward if America wants to control Greenland.
1. Campaign for Greenland's independence, and apply pressure on Denmark to achieve that. Offer security agreements and trade deals to a newly independent Greenland.
A small majority of Greenlander's support independence today; this number would likely rise if they knew they had strong external support.
2. The trade agreements, security agreements and goodwill of Greenlanders for #1 would bring Greenland into the American sphere of influence.
3. Over time, use carrots and sticks to tie Greenland closer & closer to America.
This strategy has a high likelihood of success, has the moral high ground and would minimize the damage to America's alliances.
The only problem is that it would take multiple decades, and Trump won't be around that long.
- rvnx 10mo agoFaster: Put sanctions on Denmark, not like actual sanctions, just +10000% tariffs. Open investigations for corruption, funding terrorism, release dirty secrets of the government. Help migrants to go to Denmark. Arrange with Russia little green men to come on the island or just make it fear that Russia is planning an attack. US to the rescue. Offer lot of money to each inhabitants. Spread information that Denmark abandoned the island for so many years. Plenty of ideas. Those in my list are somewhat debatable, but you can get creative and figure out good ones. etc
- bojan 10mo ago> just +10000% tariffs. Denmark is in the EU, the US would have to apply this tariff to the whole of the EU. I find it surprising how many people don't know this simple fact.
- rvnx 10mo agoSteel, cheese, wines, pastas, etc, are all country-specific. ...
- klatchex_too 10mo agoFastest: U.S. Marine Corps expeditionary units. This could be done tonight.
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- bryanlarsen 10mo agoI wasn't as clear as I wanted to be. The point was the US could achieve their goals by doing the right thing on the moral high ground. So it's stupid to take the low road.