Danes indignant over story of Trump mulling Greenland purchase,

American Thinker.com ^ | August 19, 2019 | Thomas Lifson

[Kaslin]

When the Wall Street Journal broke the story late last week that President Trump was interested in the concept of the US purchasing Greenland, the immediate negative response from Danish officials and media was utterly predictable, since the story came as a bolt out of the blue. Nobody like to learn of “secret” plans over their own national fate being mulled by the most powerful country in the world. Denmark, after all, was invaded and occupied by the Nazis, and has had its full of being abused by more powerful nations.

But I suspect the story was leaked precisely to engender negative reactions from the Danes and from our own media. If the idea had been allowed to percolate in private then it is possible that discussions could have been advanced in a manner sensitive to Danish concerns, rather than coming as a media shock. After all, about a century ago, the United States carried out a similar purchase of colonial territory from Denmark, when the Danish West Indies became the U.S. Virgin Islands, following a $25 million transfer from the US Treasury to the Government of Denmark.

But once the Danes get over the shock, they may wish to consider their relationship to Greenland in another light, one that takes into consideration their role as colonial masters to an impoverished people who have been unable to develop sources of wealth that could lift them out of misery. James Pinkerton, writing for Breitbart, notes:

… the Danes have chosen to treat the territory, for the most part, like a giant nature preserve. And that’s why the native population of Greenland mostly lives in relative poverty as poor dependents of the masters in Copenhagen.

[blueunicorn6]

Free the Greenies! Free the Greenies! Free the Greenies!

[FreedomPoster]

It would never be a state, just a territory. Like, say, Guam.

[Varda]

You have it! The Danes at least have a claim to be native at this time (how many people know the Inuit got there after the Vikings). In the US the whole place would probably be declared a reservation for the Inuit.

[blueunicorn6]

The Greenies like sports.

I can’t spell their favorite sport, but it involves throwing old people off a cliff.

[blueunicorn6]

The place is full of cannibals....like Rhode Island!

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

The Danes should be indignant about the muslims that are screwing up there tiny country.

[Vigilanteman]

Over 60% of Greenland's population is in just five towns which double as provincial capitals as shown (south to north):

1. Qaqortog 5.5%
   
2. Nuuk 31.8%
   
3. Sisimiut 9.9%
   
4. Aasiaat 5.5%
   
5. Ilulissat 8.0%

[Vigilanteman]

Just for the heck of it, I looked up the other towns on the map. Those on the west coast totaled 8.9% of Greenland's population whereas those on the east cost totaled 4.1%. These means 73.8% of the population lives in the towns on the map.

So if the remaining 26.2% of what we could call the rural population are evenly distributed, this means 94.4% live near the west coast and 5.6% live near the east coast.

I don't think Thule Air Force Base, just up the coast from Savissivik counts in the Greenland population (approx. 250 service members). It has got to be one of the worst location assignments on the planet, at least during peacetime.

[Kickass Conservative]

Didn’t this whole thing get started when some so called Journalist asked POTUS Trump about Greenland costing the Danes a bunch of money to maintain it as a Territory?

They act like POTUS Trump just came out woth this new Outrage on his own.

[CommerceComet]

Qaqortog 5.5% Nuuk 31.8% Sisimiut 9.9% Aasiaat 5.5% Ilulissat 8.0%

Not only do they have an abundance of natural resources but also apparently vowels.

[Rebelbase]

There is one mapped area of ruby deposits in Greenland that is measured in square miles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKFKHwHIKCU

[drpix]

Unless the author is planning a part-2 of this article, it is an astounding omission for the article to not have a single mention of the gorilla in the room - CHINA?

For any FReeper asking why should he, just Google 2 words: china greenland. You will get 369 million results relating to such things as offers to build Greenland an airport, expanding mining interests, using it as their Arctic base, China's Greenland Holdings Corp., to mention a few.

[AlexisHeavyMetal1981]

Over 60% of Greenland’s population is in just five towns which double as provincial capitals as shown (south to north):

1.Qaqortog 5.5%

2.Nuuk 31.8%

3.Sisimiut 9.9%

4.Aasiaat 5.5%

5.Ilulissat 8.0%

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“Qaqortog”. Is that the Inuit word for “Cracker Jack”?

[Ozark Tom]

Up in Ontario, Ca. there is a 150 mile diameter meteor impact crater. The embedded fragments of that meteor in the surrounding geology are the basis for the Sudbury Basin mines for copper, nickel, platinum group metals in general. Extraction operations have been ongoing for the last 100 years.

A similar occurrence (Hiawatha) has been discovered buried underneath a half mile thick ice sheet in NW Iceland, about 150 miles from the Thule AFB. Assay work upon associated meteor fragments supports a similar rich find, with the addition of a frosting of gold. Subsequent NASA research suggests another such large crater lies 114 miles from the Hiawatha crater location.

[Ozark Tom]

Correction: a crater 150 km or 90 miles!

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

[fortheDeclaration]

People have lost their sense of humor.

[zeestephen]

Re: Does that explain the 2008 downturn in the USA

I wasn’t trying to explain the 2008 Great Recession.

The Inuits of Canada and Greenland have always been poor.