Dude, give it up. Greenland doesn’t like you CF Vance.

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      If we assume that this is a move for Putin against NATO, the US taking control of Greenland could result in Russia gaining a naval staging area to attack Europe.

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        Yup NATO bases in Greenland monitor Russian activity in the North Atlantic. The US taking over means Russia gets to do what it wants.

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    After JD Vance landed at Greenland he cried that: “It’s cold as shit here. Nobody told me.”

    He doesn’t even know anything about the land he wants America to annex.

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      I’m assuming so they could tell him to piss off.

      And probably because they have class and didn’t want to make themselves an international spectacle.

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        They should have revoked his entry rights and then deported him someplace unfriendly.

        Well, maybe they shouldn’t have. but it’s what I’d have done.

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    We could make them much more secure. We could do a lot more protection. And I think they’d fare a lot better economically as well.

    It’s like a Mafia racket, we will protect you, but if you don’t like it we will attack you to force payment… It’s in your best interest.

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    Wait for it, it’s coming: some variation of “make Greenland great again” political campaign to try to win over Greenlanders so they’ll support annexation by the USA.

    Thankfully they get a preview of what making a country great looks like according to Trump.

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    They want to run governments like businesses…

    The reason that’s a stupid idea, is governments have to plan years, and ideally decades ahead of time.

    A publicly traded business wants to exploit every possible resource as fast as possible because that’s short term profit which makes the stock price go up. And eventually when all the resources are gone, you sell stocks before the number goes down and takes a parachute or declare bankruptcy.

    But there’s only so many countries and so many natural resources to exploit.

    It’s like an uncheck cancer when countries start acting like this, because there’s no one to hold them in check.