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Not for sale. Greenland shrugs off Trump's new push
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Seriously, though, what's his thing for Greenland, anyway?
Ronald Lauder (heir to Estee Lauder) is golfing buddies with Trump. He apparently suggested Trump buy it, possibly as a prank. Trump has been mildly obsessed ever since.
Whole thing might be a golf course prank that's gotten out of hand because one billionaire played a joke on another.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/us/politics/trump-greenland.html
Of all the explanations offered, I think this one, pathetic as it is, is the most likely correct answer.
I find it more likely because it's pathetic.
Mineral rights, on and off shore. There's a goldmine there when the melt starts seriously hitting.
Trump won't live that long, and let's be real, that isn't what he's thinking of. But owning Greenland would be a serious boon to the United States in the next 50-100 years. Watch us utterly rape Alaska once the ice recedes.
Invading things seems to be a hangup for small dick energy guys - Taiwan, Ukraine, Gaza, killing the Kurds, and so forth. Maybe Greenland is just conveniently close and conveniently scarcely populated…?
Gas and oil reserves. He thinks they need some "freedom".
Prime real estate once the snow and ice is gone.
The ice itself is going to become more and more valuable as the U.S. depletes its groundwater and other places which rely on glacial melt for their water don't have it any more.
He probably thinks it's full of lush, green foliage. Probably wants the logging rights. Who knows with that guy.
Trump said nothing about buying it, just that US had to have it.