America hasn't invested in America since 1950s
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What the hell is the obsession with Greenland? It's ridiculous.
If we assume that this is a move for Putin against NATO, the US taking control of Greenland could result in Russia gaining a naval staging area to attack Europe.
Yup NATO bases in Greenland monitor Russian activity in the North Atlantic. The US taking over means Russia gets to do what it wants.
More that it normalizes a return to military expansion of national borders.
Russia is trying to grow their territory by annexing neighbors.
China would plainly like to.
The US didn't, which made the scales tilt towards Russia acting badly and unusually badly.
With the shift, Russia is just the only one acting on a policy item that all the major powers have.
And like clockwork: https://apnews.com/article/russia-putin-arctic-trump-greenland-2dbd00625c2c0c3bd94a2c96c7015b69
"Putin says US push for Greenland rooted in history, vows to uphold Russian interest in the Arctic"
Speaking at a policy forum in the Artic port of Murmansk, Putin noted that the United States first considered plans to win control over Greenland in the 19th century, and then offered to buy it from Denmark after World War II.
“It can look surprising only at first glance and it would be wrong to believe that this is some sort of extravagant talk by the current U.S. administration,” Putin said. “It’s obvious that the United States will continue to systematically advance its geostrategic, military-political and economic interests in the Arctic.”
The US and Greenland; Russia and Ukraine: it only matters that it's rooted in history, right?
Looking at this question through geological lenses it's quiet simple: they want the resources underneath the ice. Under the ice there are deposits with quality that is pretty unheard of for todays day and age. You see during the Bronze ago we humans used up ore deposits that were around 20-40% Copper/Tin, but as we continued needing resources we used those deposits up and started using deposits that only had 1% of resources and so on. If I'm not mistaken we are down to mostly around using deposits that range somewhere around 0.1% of the actual mineral we want. Here comes the near part about Greenland: There is a lot of ice that made it impossible for any human in history to get to those deposits, even more so to mine them. So once the ice is gone you will provably find deposits of bronze age quality, which is just amazing as mining these things gets like 100 fold easier :D Oh and also I think the USGS estimated that there are like 30+ Billion barrel of oil under Greenland Source: I'm doing a bachelors in geology and this was part of one of my lectures, its been a while though so I fear I might have gotten things wrong, not sure though. Please please correct me if I wrote bogus
To add on, it also provides a staging area for whatever Arctic ocean resource conflicts happen in the next 10 years or whatever
Why did they even let him in?
I'm assuming so they could tell him to piss off.
And probably because they have class and didn't want to make themselves an international spectacle.
They should have revoked his entry rights and then deported him someplace unfriendly.
Well, maybe they shouldn't have. but it's what I'd have done.
I nominate you to be Greenland
The base is controlled and run independently by the US. Greenland lets us do that because theyre supposed to be our ALLIES
After JD Vance landed at Greenland he cried that: “It’s cold as shit here. Nobody told me.”
He doesn’t even know anything about the land he wants America to annex.
We could make them much more secure. We could do a lot more protection. And I think they’d fare a lot better economically as well.
It's like a Mafia racket, we will protect you, but if you don't like it we will attack you to force payment... It's in your best interest.
I mean, he just started doing exactly what you said to Canada
Fucking clown
Wait for it, it's coming: some variation of "make Greenland great again" political campaign to try to win over Greenlanders so they'll support annexation by the USA.
Thankfully they get a preview of what making a country great looks like according to Trump.
Imagine getting imperialistic threats from a fascist wearing guyliner. Weird.
The Kurgen has entered the chat
Edit: actually can he please enter real life and visit a few people who need a date with a guillotine anyway
Queen also. Princes of the universe
They want to run governments like businesses...
The reason that's a stupid idea, is governments have to plan years, and ideally decades ahead of time.
A publicly traded business wants to exploit every possible resource as fast as possible because that's short term profit which makes the stock price go up. And eventually when all the resources are gone, you sell stocks before the number goes down and takes a parachute or declare bankruptcy.
But there's only so many countries and so many natural resources to exploit.
It's like an uncheck cancer when countries start acting like this, because there's no one to hold them in check.
Motherfucker we are underinvested here.
They won't give up. This is a threat that should be taken seriously.