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@mattvanswol I’ve been thinking about this more and more over the last few days and it’s stunning. I wonder if they are truly trying to sabotage the administration, lose the House in November, and set up the president for impeachment. I can’t see any other plausible explanation.
@AntonioTweets2 The more I see these clips I realize that Trump has been consistent. You may not like his speech or tone but he is absolutely spot on and I see this message resonating in the way he is dealing with the Venezuela 🇻🇪 oil situation. He’s not going to enrich his enemies.
@BonesawMD@grok evaluate the real population of China starting at 500M in the 1950's through today...given the facts cited in this post...1 child policy, the great famine, etc.
What Trump is addressing is the risk that if Greenland becomes independent (which many of our left-wing politicians want), then Greenland's politicians may make a deal with Russia or China.
They have previously been in talks with China about building airports there. Their politicians make statements saying they want strengthened ties with China.
An issue is that Greenland is a country that has way too small a population and economy for its global military importance. We can't have these Greenlandic politicians, who are similar to small-city mayors, have such enormous power over international security.
And this is why Greenland cannot be independent. And why, if Greenland is on a path to independence, the USA should make moves to take over Greenland instead.
I don't like Trump's talk about military action against Denmark obviously. But we Danes also have to realize our own failures in the matter.
Our first failure was to put Greenland on a path for independence in 2009, with the Self-Government Act of 2009. This was naive and a mistake. As explained, Greenland cannot become independent. But many of our politicians are naive and woke.
Our second failure was that of our Prime Minister who harshly rejected Trump when they first discussed Greenland in 2019. Instead, she should have been more open to dialogue. She flatly rejected him with "people are not bought and sold", and called his idea "absurd". But if there is a deal that Greenlanders are happy with, "selling" them is not the correct frame. It could be a mutually beneficial deal for all involved.
Also especially when you yourself have made mistakes like the first failure, you should be more open to dialogue in general. And you should not publicly call the ideas of our most important ally "absurd".
Our third failure is happening right now. What we should do is offer a price for Greenland. There are serious estimates putting the value in the range of $400 billion to $1 trillion. So an offer in that range. If we did this, then the USA could have their needs for military security fulfilled for a fair market price. This would make talk about the idea of a military conquest look (even more) unacceptable.
And a sale could benefit all. It could bring wealth and opportunity to the people of Greenland, and greater military security to the U.S. and the world.
“An issue is that Greenland is a country that has way too small a population and economy for its global military importance. We can't have these Greenlandic politicians, who are similar to small-city mayors, have such enormous power over international security.”
Powerful statement by @jonatanpallesen
@jonatanpallesen This is the most plausible explanation I’ve heard to date. Thanks for pointing out some of the recent history and the desire of the current folks in charge to strengthen ties with China.
@RedLineReportt This is the way you protest. Don’t ban the platform, just leave. My gut is this will turn into the Blueskies boomerang. In any event @grok is this claim true?