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Trump believes Greenland is for sale

bbc.com

> For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.

I'm not seeing any mention of "buying" here. Given his comments on the Panama canal, I think you should assume he has other options in mind for acquiring Greenland.

Wait til he finds out NATO member Iceland doesn’t have an army.

For edutainment, here's Greenland superimposed over the US eastern seaboard after adjusting for Mercator projection distortion.

https://www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTQ5ODUwMjI.OTMwODU...

Clicking the outline will let you drag it around, and when it's selected the compass-rose in the corner can be twisted to change the orientation.

For the right price, America could probably it. There are only 56,000 Greenlanders, meaning that you could give each a million dollars at $56b, only about 1% of the federal budget. Do Greenlanders feel that attached to Denmark that they would refuse a million bucks?

A million USD isn't very much these days

It's still 20x their GDP per capita - given that Greenland isn't really an independent country I would feel pretty tempted to switch overlords for twenty years of wages.

Interesting, there might be a right price but 1M per person look far too low and buys personal property only.

If you own just a little land and you get $1M can be a good deal but if you own a lot, then you will expect premium on top of what its worth and $1M not going to cut it. If everyone gets accordingly to what they own, then those who will receive non-life changing amount wouldn't accept the deal.

So the true price would be something like $1M each + current value of their property + premium.

Then you can own all the private land on Greenland if someone stubborn doesn't refuse to sell. Then what do you do about the rest of the land? Pay Denmark? How much? Start a war with Denmark? Maybe some kind of other deals can be possible but $56B isn't going to cut it.

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