r/Republican • u/vurbil • 7d ago
Trump Doesn't Really Want Greenland Discussion
Trump keeps bringing up buying Greenland for some reason other than actually wanting to buy Greenland. How do I know? Because if he actually wanted to acquire Greenland, these public pronouncements are the last thing you'd do.
What you'd actually do is:
Start developing a relationship with the natives. Economic projects, etc.
Negotiate for some large American project on the island that requires a ton of labor. A large construction project of some sort. Then recruit your most ardent supporters for the job and offer massive incentives for them to stay in Greenland.
Continue to offer massive economic incentives for Americans to go to Greenland, such as mining rare earth minerals.
Once the population of Americans on Greenland exceeds the native population, then and only then do you start quietly planting the idea of annexation in the minds of the Americans in Greenland. You say nothing about it publicly at this point. It has to be an organic thing happening in Greenland.
Only once the situation is ripe and the whole thing has become a massive problem for Denmark, then you come out and start saying things like Greenland should have self-determination. Perhaps a referendum on Greenland's future should be held. And that's when you quietly--quietly--go to Denmark and offer them a deal to buy it.
Is this scenario wildly unrealistic? Perhaps. But it's a lot more realistic than just blurting out that you want someone's territory. That doesn't really go over too well in this world order that we've created. That's what leads me to believe that Trump has no real hope of acquiring Greenland. He is either putting this out there as the opening of a negotiation to get some kind of military basing or mining rights on Greenland, or he is throwing out flares to distract the media from what he really wants to do, or he is just bored waiting to take office and wants to troll.
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u/Clear-Wrongdoer42 7d ago
Trump is much smarter than people give him credit for. Of course he isn't going to buy Greenland or invade Panama. He keeps people off guard and reacting to what he says. He measures people's responses to his statements and figures out their real intentions that way. It's the well tested strategy of baffling people with bullshit.