Trump Doesn't Really Want Greenland

[u/vurbil]

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:

1. Start developing a relationship with the natives. Economic projects, etc.

2. 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.

3. Continue to offer massive economic incentives for Americans to go to Greenland, such as mining rare earth minerals.

4. 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.

5. 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.

[u/Low-Loan-5956]

Any conversation about America buying Greenland is ridiculous and not worth a second thought.

[u/vurbil → u/Low-Loan-5956]

The only thing that is ridiculous is your delusion that Europe's opinion matters.

[u/Low-Loan-5956 → u/vurbil]

Pathetic, self centered and delusional attitude.

[u/vurbil → u/Low-Loan-5956]

Europe is a poor, resentful, effete, washed up, Anti-American, anti-capitalist, did I mention washed up continent whose denizens are still somehow smug and condescending.

[u/Low-Loan-5956 → u/vurbil]

How can you honestly put down "smug and condescending" whilst defending the most smug and condescending world leader the world has ever seen.

That man is a menace. He is a threat to Republicans as much as he is a threat to the opposition.

You defending him is ludicrous. He does not care about you, he does not care about the party, he does not care about the country. It is so obvious.... Jesus..

[u/vurbil → u/Low-Loan-5956]

It's obvious you're not an American, much less a Republican. Therefore, by the rules of the sub, you must be banned.

[u/Low-Loan-5956 → u/vurbil]

Supporting Donald Trump is the most anti American thing you can do. He also isn't a republican, he aligns with exactly 0 traditional republican values.