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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 24,177 ✭✭✭✭✭

    But I want it and I am going to yell and break things until I get what I want.
    --Fvcking 2 year old

  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 10,068 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TRayB said:
    Here is a worthwhile read on the significance of Greenland geopolitically.

    https://www.diplomacyandlaw.com/post/the-geopolitical-significance-of-greenland

    Excellent article, a lot to think about.

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,276 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    But I want it and I am going to yell and break things until I get what I want.
    --Fvcking 2 year old

    This!

  • Itsfine
    Itsfine Posts: 21,075 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    What's the point? Its not for sale.

    The point is that there's a kid that saw something on TV and now he wants it for Christmas. I agree. Greenland is worthless. Move on.

    I am the Troll Jesus. Follow me, my children, or clutch your pearls tightly.

    @ScotchnSmoke still sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,528 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's what they said about Alaska

    A little dirt never hurt
  • Itsfine
    Itsfine Posts: 21,075 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dirtdude said:
    That's what they said about Alaska

    Nice straw man. That's what they said about Antarctica too, and they were correct.

    If Greenland was so geopolitically important, Russia would have occupied it 50 years ago.

    I am the Troll Jesus. Follow me, my children, or clutch your pearls tightly.

    @ScotchnSmoke still sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,435 ✭✭✭✭✭

    True?
    May be a graphic of text that says 'The increasing political division does not arise from one side hating the other side. It arises from one side hating the caricature that they have created of the other side.'

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • edz
    edz Posts: 530 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Itsfine said:

    @dirtdude said:
    That's what they said about Alaska

    Nice straw man. That's what they said about Antarctica too, and they were correct.

    If Greenland was so geopolitically important, Russia would have occupied it 50 years ago.

    NATO, rocky and Bullwinkle attitude that would have stopped them.

  • Itsfine
    Itsfine Posts: 21,075 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @edz said:

    @Itsfine said:

    @dirtdude said:
    That's what they said about Alaska

    Nice straw man. That's what they said about Antarctica too, and they were correct.

    If Greenland was so geopolitically important, Russia would have occupied it 50 years ago.

    NATO, rocky and Bullwinkle attitude that would have stopped them.

    Maybe, but if it were that important, they'd have at least tried or made overtures.

    I am the Troll Jesus. Follow me, my children, or clutch your pearls tightly.

    @ScotchnSmoke still sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • edz
    edz Posts: 530 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Itsfine said:

    @edz said:

    @Itsfine said:

    @dirtdude said:
    That's what they said about Alaska

    Nice straw man. That's what they said about Antarctica too, and they were correct.

    If Greenland was so geopolitically important, Russia would have occupied it 50 years ago.

    NATO, rocky and Bullwinkle attitude that would have stopped them.

    Maybe, but if it were that important, they'd have at least tried or made overtures.

    sorry ,but disagree. They were in no position to do that. Wasn't that many years before that when they were giving troops guns with no bullets telling them to get the bullets off of the fallen ones.

  • Itsfine
    Itsfine Posts: 21,075 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @edz said:

    @Itsfine said:

    @edz said:

    @Itsfine said:

    @dirtdude said:
    That's what they said about Alaska

    Nice straw man. That's what they said about Antarctica too, and they were correct.

    If Greenland was so geopolitically important, Russia would have occupied it 50 years ago.

    NATO, rocky and Bullwinkle attitude that would have stopped them.

    Maybe, but if it were that important, they'd have at least tried or made overtures.

    sorry ,but disagree. They were in no position to do that. Wasn't that many years before that when they were giving troops guns with no bullets telling them to get the bullets off of the fallen ones.

    Yeah that is fine probably so. We got off track anyways.

    The whole "everybody said Alaska was a mistake so therefore Greenland is not a mistake just because people said Alaska was a mistake" is a dumb argument.

    Alaska ended up becoming important because we discovered oil and because geopolitics changed in the region 50 years after the sale.

    Greenland no valuable natural resources in any significant quantities that I can find.

    Greenland*s geography is of no value geopolitically when considering our biggest peer adversary problems.

    Denmark would literally sell us or rent us as much real estate on the ice sheet as we wanted to to put up all of the goofy **** with the so-called experts say we need. But we want to own for no other reason than imperialism.

    Owning that giant chunk of ice makes the government bigger. More administration, more poor Inuit people getting the free handouts of conservatives are always sniveling about. More roads to repair more ports to upgrade more land to defend outside of our current borders.

    Juice ain't worth the squeeze. Just saying it is doesn't make it so.

    I am the Troll Jesus. Follow me, my children, or clutch your pearls tightly.

    @ScotchnSmoke still sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 24,177 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think it is time for Congress to grow a spine, tell the president "no. Go take a nap."

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 24,177 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Otoh, here's a list of Trump's successes, straight from the White House.

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/01/365-wins-in-365-days-president-trumps-return-marks-new-era-of-success-prosperity/

  • Itsfine
    Itsfine Posts: 21,075 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like somebody finally got around to writing their five bullets for Elon

    I am the Troll Jesus. Follow me, my children, or clutch your pearls tightly.

    @ScotchnSmoke still sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,528 ✭✭✭✭✭

    We had a lively No King, Resist, Fuçk Trump rally here yesterday, must have been a hundred kids and a few Grandma and Grandpa's that probably busted their chops protesting the war in the 60s. Got to wondering later, where the hell did all those kids come from, never see kids around here, the couple we have seen the dog barks at them as if they are aliens

    A little dirt never hurt
  • Itsfine
    Itsfine Posts: 21,075 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sounds like a good time!

    I am the Troll Jesus. Follow me, my children, or clutch your pearls tightly.

    @ScotchnSmoke still sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,276 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My flight just landed. Had a great time in Arizona! Made an extra $37 for my efforts.

  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 32,500 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The kids are all paid actors, of course. :D

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  • TRayB
    TRayB Posts: 4,109 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Trump Right About Arctic Security, NATO’s Rutte Says

    The secretary-general also praised the president for encouraging other member states to up their defense spending.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/trump-right-about-arctic-security-natos-rutte-says-5974139?src_src=Goodevening&src_cmp=gv-2026-01-21&est=XTCTJ4G1mIqgQ+4mhhMii1u2cvMP2ftJGVaCAkBtPrkg3mKkui1t/1elViVj9haApBFjEw==

    Also, seems like in 2019 Denmark agreed to spend $200M on defenses in Greenland, but to this point has only spent about 1% of that number.

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