US Greenland Acquisition
Discussions center on US interest in purchasing or annexing Greenland from Denmark, including threats of invasion, NATO implications, Greenlanders' opposition, and geopolitical motivations like resources and Arctic strategy.
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As a dane, this is horrible, and a racist colonial thing that needs to be gotten rid of. However the US is on a systematic mission to tear up Greenland in a attempt to aquire it, even as the people there voted to stay with Denmark. Remember the US president actually threaten a small EU and NATO country to give him their land? For this none technews to hit HN seems like a further attempt of that propaganda campaign.
Is this a US propaganda article to make greenland join the USA?
We already have power over greenland tho :/
The people of Greenland overwhelmingly don't want this to happen:https://www.reuters.com/world/poll-shows-85-greenlanders-do-...
You can't 'just' invade Greenland. You'd be invading the EU.
Greenland is extremely and much more than to any other country important to the US . Close geographical proximity, similarity with and existent experience from Alaska, bridge to sensitive regions of Russia and in the end of the tunnel a rich underground that hardly any other can extract. Ongoing climate improvement play a role, may be definitive. The potential take over is relatively easy (not like Canada): 50000 indigenous people that can be bribed, terrorised, forced or persuaded. Denmark is m
What are you talking about? Greenland is already a NATO member (via Denmark), so it has already taken a side. The obvious scandal, of course, is that Greenland is being openly threatened by the US - a fellow NATO member!
USA threatening to take over Greenland? That’d increase its area by another ~20%.
Here are the cold hard facts:- Greenland and Denmark don't want to sell to the US.- Denmark is a close ally of the US, and is a NATO member.If the US decides that the only way to get Greenland is to take it by force, than that's the end of NATO. And it will usher in a new and unprecedented time where Europe will treat the US as hostiles. Whatever values US hopes to extract from Greenland via their natural resources will absolutely pale in comparison to the new economic world t
Probably based on https://grapevine.is/news/2019/08/20/greenland-considering-b... (also read the article footer)