Rubio: Trump is serious about buying Greenland

[MangoKorat]

2 hours ago, LosLobo said:

Many fans are experiencing buyers' remorse and are even calling it a Ponzi scheme.

I predict that it won't be too long before voters are also experiencing remorse.

 

A reminder Donald, you said you would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours - you're late!

[MangoKorat]

9 hours ago, bangadang said:

 What garbage how about doing a little research?   India?  China?  Africa?  This thread is about Greenland not Ukraine.

Somehow, I think a parallel exists.

[daejung]

9 hours ago, impulse said:

 

As I claimed above, with the current state of the world, especially SEA and Europe, would you prefer a Singapore or a Danish passport when they both collapsed within days at the start of WW2?

 

 

USA might end up with no allies at all.

Alliance works both way and you might need allies one day.

[mogandave]

4 hours ago, MangoKorat said:

I predict that it won't be too long before voters are also experiencing remorse.

 

A reminder Donald, you said you would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours - you're late!

About half the voters are already remorseful.

 

The other half are stoked.

[mogandave]

31 minutes ago, daejung said:

USA might end up with no allies at all.

Alliance works both way and you might need allies one day.

“Peace through strength.” and ”No better friend, no worse enemy.” These need to be the basis of US foreign policy. 

[MicroB]

20 hours ago, impulse said:

 

Greenlanders may change their mind when they hear his offer.  In which case, what the Danes think becomes moot.

 

What's 57,000 x $1 million smackeroos?  Small change for the US.  Life changing for the Greenlanders.

 

 

 

I think a forum member who supports the policy said the offer would from Trump would amount to $1 billion per inhabitant.

 

 

If the Americans are offering 1 million or 1 billion per person, they are low balling. Raise it 100x and a US state or two in exchange, maybe based  on area. Do a population swap. Danes and Greenlanders can go live in Florida. MAGA supporters can brave the new North East Frontier.

 

If this is a business negotiation, then Trump's offer will be low. Denmark should counter with a high offer, meet in the middle, with the US ceding coastal territories along the Gulf of Denmark.

 

American industry could just buy land in Greenland. Using Iceland as a proxy, the cost of a  square KM of Greenland is $1.3million. Greenland is about 2.2 million square kms. Trump made back his Daddy's wealth that he squandered on hookers and gambling through property deals. He understands that. The value of Greenland, based just on the land is $2.86 trillion.  I'd probably double that due to mining value. About 57,000 Greenlanders. With a fair discount, Uncle Sam owes each Greenlander $100 million.

[MicroB]

9 hours ago, impulse said:

 

Did they even hear the offer?  Doubt it.  Because there hasn't been one.

 

I had a classic '63 VW Bug that people were always trying to get me to sell and I always said no.  But that's because nobody waved $1 million smackeroos in front of me.  I'd have changed my mind in a heartbeat.

 

 

If a member of the Chinese Communist Party gave you a sack of $1 milion  and a Mao coat, would you happily put on the Mao coat and yell "Death to the American Running Dogs"? If not, what is your pice to betray your country and country and values, because you suggest loyalty can be brought.

 

Average income in the US is about $37,500. Average income in Greenland is about $43,500 which might surprise MAGidiots who think they are negotiating with Eskimos who can be brought off with some herring and whale blubber.

 

Americans frequently complain about foreign ownership of US land.

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[MicroB]

17 hours ago, Sandboxer said:

I have a great idea.

 

Get the infested European countries on board to share the cost of turning it into a giant Nauru-like detention/pre-repatriation camp and let Denmark use it for free.

 

Everyone happy. And Greenlanders get well paid secured jobs as guard for decades to come.

 

And yet the average Greenlander already gets paid more than the average American. It seems Americans should become more like Greenlanders, and so get paid more.

[MicroB]

18 hours ago, impulse said:

 

For a $ million smackeroos.  And the most powerful passport in the world.

 

 

$1 million is not a life changing amount of money. If you are 65 years old, it buys yiu an annuity of less than $49,000. Given the average Greenlander is wealthier than the average American, that's your price to betray your country?

 

$1 million is all it takes you to become pro-Chinese Communist/Pro-Russian. You're cheap.

[MicroB]

9 hours ago, MangoKorat said:

Serious about buying Greenland? Trump needs to wind his damned neck in.

 

Its a 25th Amendment tactic. You remember Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Trump is Prince Ruprecht. The Art of the Grift.

 

 

[MicroB]

18 hours ago, Thingamabob said:

Hardly self governing. For example, and critically, the judiciary is controlled by the Danes which has lead to resentment by many Greenlanders. Further, an offer of 1 million dollars to each adult Greenlander would be gratefully received by most. 

 

So that's also your price to betray your country. Lot of cheap wannabe traitors in Thailand.

[MicroB]

17 hours ago, impulse said:

 

How long did Singapore last when the Japanese decided to take it?  How long did Estonia last?  In fact, how long did Denmark last?

 

Look at the current state of the world, especially in SEA and Europe, and tell me which passport you'd prefer if SHTF.

 

 

In 1941, Singapore wasn't a country. It fell after a lightening campaign by Japan through Malaya, with a bit of Thai help. It mattered not a jot that it was protected by what was then the most powerful passport in the world. At the start of WW2, the Philippines was an unincorporated territory of the United States. The Japanese kicked your arse there as well, but Thai help wasn't needed to achieve that.

 

If I'm on a plane that's hijacked by neck cutting terrorists, there are two passports I really wouldn't want.

 

The current state of the world is due to people like your boy. Him and they created it, and are part ocf the problem.

 

This is what happens when you have a drift to technocracy.  The so-called experts (Trump the bankrupted businessman, Putin the spook from a failed state) turned out to be complete, and this is an under used but missed word, plonkers.