Posted on 08/24/2019 3:49:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Trump is upset that Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called his interest in purchasing Greenland "absurd." Her dismissive response should have come as no surprise. In 1946, when President Harry Truman tried to purchase Greenland, Secretary of State James Byrnes wrote that the proposal "seemed to come as a shock" and an insult to Danish officials, who turned it down.
That was a big mistake. As part of his deal, Truman had offered to trade parts of the Point Barrow district of Alaska, including the rights to any oil discovered there, to Denmark, in exchange for parts of Greenland. The Danes dismissed the idea just as they did Trump's proposal. In 1967, the richest oil strike in U.S. history was made in the Point Barrow area. Bad move, Denmark! Sad!
With that blunder in their rearview mirror, you would think that Danish leaders would at least hear Trump out. The president's idea of buying Greenland is far from absurd. Today we have a military base in Greenland, so there is no need to buy it for that purpose. But Greenland has enormous unexplored stores of natural resources, including zinc, lead, gold, iron ore, diamonds, copper and uranium, that Denmark has been unable or unwilling to exploit.
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I always have problems with blaming people for not having psychic abilities. OK, the Danes didn’t go for Point Barrow. So they subsequently found oil. Hindsight is 20/20. You have to make decisions based on what you know, not what may be known from now till the end of time. Washington Post. ‘nuff said.
I think you misread it.
The article said the Danes passed and after they passed on the purchase/trade, oil was discovered in the district that was offered up for trade.
"Now let’s go back to the place Seward eyed first. Greenland is economically valuable because of its immense natural resources. Aside from yuge oil and gas development possibilities and enormously rich fisheries, Greenland has iron ore, lead, zinc, gold, and uranium. But perhaps most importantly, the arctic region, and Greenland in particular, is full of rare earth elements, a crucial material necessary for manufacturing just about everything from computer chips to fiber optics to missiles to tanks and you name it. We need rare earth elements to sustain our manufacturing sector and equip our military. And, as shocking as it is to say this, our country is currently dangerously dependent on China to supply our rare earth metals. Since when is it a good idea to be totally dependent on your strategic enemy for an essential resource? China knows they have us over a barrel on this. In fact, as Breitbart’s John Carney reported last May, Beijing has threatened to “weaponize” our dependence on their rare earths as leverage against us in their trade fight."
Since when is it a good idea to be totally dependent on your strategic enemy for an essential resource
Yeah he’s the gift that keeps on giving.
Like a VD.
China will buy Greenland slowly. They already offered to buy the closed USAF Sondrestram Airbase, but Denmark refused. China will eventually get a port for “research”, even if they have to build it. China recently offered to build three airports in Greenland.
just think of all the farmland in Greenland when Gorebull Warming really kicks in,
They have diamonds? The diamond companies and barons won’t like that. Then they can’t artificially limit the supply.
What I would like to know is what the residents of Greenland want? Do they want to be Chinese citizens or American? There is an island on the other side of the world where the people desperately wish to be American and not Chinese!
10 Harrow House.
If Greenland is not sold to the US it will be in the hands of the Eurasia Muslim Caliphate in 20 years.
The FreeStateProject people should ditch New Hampshire, move to Greenland, get a majority there, and then push Denmark for the sale, or barring that have the U.S. on a 99 year lease like the UK had with Hong Kong.
I suspect support is higher than is currently implied by the lamestream media coverage.
Invade!
Polk tried to buy California from Mexico before the Mexican War. After they were defeated they agreed to sell it as part of the peace treaty. But without the Mexican War the first line of the Marine Corps Hymn wouldn't make much sense.
Just flying over Greenland gave me the shudders. Nothing but frozen ice and rock. 836,000 square miles that’s uninhabitable by man or beast.
There’s a reason the population is only 56K people. Nobody in their right mind would want to live there.
I think Trump is right on China, and may be right on Greenland.
America is slowly being boxed in the the Chicoms.
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