J.D. Vance lashes out at Denmark: 'Not a good ally'

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenlandic_cuisine

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This is not about natural resources or national security, but Russian influence in the US government, and trying to normalize imperialism.

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Well he did mention the resources..

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Yup. Rare earth metals are profitable, but ecologically apocalyptic. They don't want their island to become an ecological disaster zone.

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The resources have not been mined because it's not financially feasible, yet.

China who are otherwise masters of long term planning discarded the idea about 15 years ago. They wanted to invest in Greenland by building airports and make a transport hub on Greenland for both cargo and passengers in exchange for mining permissions. They backed out because it's simply not a good business.

Despite the ice melting, it's going to take a long time for it to be worth the effort. Perhaps 30-50 years or so, assuming they're still worth anything in the future and if transport can be done cheaply by boats.
Donald Trump would be long gone by then anyway.

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"Dump em in a crevasse, it'll spit them out in 10, 20 years"

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Strengthening the alliance by going onto a known propaganda lie factory with more lies and insults about them. Great strategy.

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Jesus that’s some scary dictator / aggressor ready talk, holy crap.

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The second the US attempts to take Greenland we’ll be sanctioned to oblivion by the treaty we helped create. It’s beyond humiliating, but absolutely necessary.

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We're either going to see the EU/NATO lay flat while USA takes territory, or we're going to see USA annex and invade EU territory and be met with war.

Probably the former, but it won't be good.

Vance is also intentionally ignoring the fact that 85% of Greenlanders were negative to Americans seizing their country. He throws out the unhappy 55,000 Greenlanders speculation as if they haven't already been asked about the situation directly. He does not care what the Greenlanders think, he just wants to seize Greenland.

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Honestly I hope we'll see neither of those scenarios but in the hypothetical event of a US invasion, the EU project would fall apart if it wasn't met with a direct answer.

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I certainly hope this is just big talk of a delusional megalomaniac who wants to be emperor and some vice president with an intellectual impairment chiming in to either please him and lick boots, or because this is some elaborate strategy to spread fear and ask way too much, and then get a better "compromise". But yeah, sad to see the civilized world becoming smaller. I hope we stay strong, don't give in and in the end the good will prevail. We're going to find out either way.

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These next few decades will suck at least as much as the ones 100 years ago.

I get the feeling we'll let the fascists win this time.

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Denmark needs nukes

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I'd love to be liberated by Denmark

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Not the worst choice. They're the second-happiest country in the world. They have freedom, look down on bigotry. They have nice pastry...

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But what would the Swedes do when the little pond freezes over next time!?

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It's the same rhetoric that Russia has used to annex land. "They aren't happy, the people voted and supported us" and "they have always been Russian, the land was Russia's historically. We are just taking our land back"

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As an American citizen I can say that this dipshit freak only speaks for the dumbest among us. This guy's daddy is going to make America lose all its allies. So I don't think this loser should be talking about this subject.

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Oh yeah, forgot about this guy. As did everybody else.

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J.D. Vance lashes out at Denmark: 'Not a good ally'