The plan would replace the $600 million in subsidies Denmark gives the island each year
The Donald Trump administration is reportedly considering giving about $10,000 to each Greenland resident as part of its plan to annex the island.
The possibility would seek to replace the $600 million Denmark gives the territory in subsidies every year, and has stopped being mere rhetoric to become official U.S. policy, according to The New York Times.
The outlet detailed that the plan already includes several cabinet departments and that the White House’s National Security Council has met several times to advance on it, recently sending specific instructions to different offices.
DOGE gonna cut this waste?
I haven’t read Fart of the Meal or whatever it’s called, but I feel like asking Greenlanders what it would take for them to want to be annexed may be a better (but still not good) way to broach the subject. And, if they say there’s nothing at all the US can offer them, then take that as a blatant hint to back the fuck off.
10k of MY FUCKING TAX MONEY, you stupid ape!
McDonald’s do your job already. This is getting ridiculous.
The Simpsons predicted him dying tomorrow.
That was fake, unfortunately.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/simpsons-predict-trumps-death/
Fuck sake, I’ve been waiting for tomorrow.
Make tomorrow today
10,000 * 56,583 ~= 566 million < 600 million.
Bruh, he doesn’t even want to pay out the annual subsidy once.
<Dr. Evil $1 million dollars meme .gif >
Given what Trump is doing to the American economy, it might be better to offer Chinese Yuan.
Why do we need Greenland? Is it so we can easily attack Russia or something? Isn’t Alaska pretty fucking close? Like what is the reason for annexing Greenland?
I think it’s strategic for when he pulls the US out of Nato, of course he will want the resources as well.
Probably many greedy reasons, but my personal favourite speculation: annexing Greenland surrounds Canada and stops any potential aid by its NATO allies in case of an invasion, since annexing Canada is one of the stated objectives of the US now.
In terms of strategy for actual national security, they already got all the access they wanted, if they wanted more all they had to do was ask. If they’re the ones doing the attacking of a common ally, though, they wouldn’t get that access. So it’s only of added strategic value to annex instead of maintaining the alliance if the goal is to attack members of the alliance.
Ressource deposits.
If they pollute enough to finish melting the north pole , it open a new trade route. And the pollution part is already plan with coal mining and fracking.
There is a shipping route opening up that would enable Asian-Europen-American trade via a about 2/3 shorter route than currently possible. It would make any route through the Suez canals or around Africa pointless. This might not sound important right now, but it would fundamentally change the fortunes of countries and reshape the world.
https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/future-northern-sea-route-golden-waterway-niche/
Greenland and all the areas surrounding it know this. They will not be giving Greenland to America.
Mineral rights and control of what will be a major shipping route as the North opens up due to climate change.
Climate could play a part, too.
Fuck that’s insane. Makes perfect sense but holy shit. I fucking hate this planet and this country even more.
No it doesn’t make sense. Unless there is a grift.
Because in the past a company could negotiate for passage and minerals.
But this time a countrys leader wants to get in on that wealth and grift.
So it makes sense only if some asshole abuses their power for greed.
This all sucks.
I meant fucked as in our politicians are, despite what we think, thinking generations ahead to the point they’ve accepted the consequences of our actions and know there’s no going back and therefore looking for ways to monetize the future bleakness that is our world.
I worded what I said poorly. I agree with you, it makes no sense. Short term thinking. I was trying to say that they could do all sorts of horrible things in the old fashioned way, not draw much attention and not much complaint. They could accomplish their short sighted plans without all the drama and scrutiny.
Especially since some of Greenlands resources would replace resources the US military purchases from CHYNA.
Do we really need to repeat trumps limp humor here? Its spelled ‘China’, Brad.
Trump definitely won’t attack Russia. Vladimir Putin is his bestie.
I think Putin is uncomfortable with a NATO country in that strategic position, so he has manipulated Trump into thinking that it would be a good “real estate deal” for the US to take it over.
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And he’ll totally get that money out to you any day now. The check is in the mail.
Greenland should say “we’re interested, but we’d need statehood and voting representatives in the house and Senate” - which would effectively end GOP control of the Senate for a generation.
If he tries anything like this in Canada I very much hope our leaders don’t say that. Those of us who haven’t fallen into the MAGA black hole don’t ever want to be part of the USA, even with representation in their rotten system of government. I’m fairly sure Greenlanders would feel similarly.
My price is $1 million, and Skum’s public execution streamed on the Internet.
Then I’d vote against it.
Why is he so interested in Greenland? Is it just the natural resources?
The natural resources, a tacit admission that Global Warming is real, continued control over a strategic area even after completely fucking over the perfectly good allies the US has now, and even though it’s under the second largest ice sheet in the world, the island is just a tiny bit larger than the Louisiana Purchase, so I’m sure there’s a huge ego factor.
I suppose it’s a relief they’re not talking about invading (for now), but Jesus what beatdown this all is.
I read someplace that theres about 17 trillion in minerals and oil in greenland. ~57000 population of greenland, so paying for just the mineral wealth not the land and other resources, he’d owe each inhabitant about 298 million. each. So he’s paying them 1 /30,000th of what he should be offering.
Whatever the actual net value is, it’s not that. There isn’t just a 17 trillion pile of minerals sitting somewhere on the surface.
Yeah Greenland is actually in a tough spot. It has a lot of economic potential, but it can’t unlock it without completely upending its own society. There are only 56,000 Greenlanders. If they wanted to expand mining enough to be economically self sufficient, they would need to bring in so many people that the existing population would become a minority. They would have to become an Arctic Dubai.
This is also why they don’t want to be annexed by the US. (Even if the US still had sane leadership.) Once you’re part of the US, any American that wishes can move there. Any American company can set up shop there. The existing society would be completely overrun.
And it would be an ecological disaster.
Not that the Trump administration nor mining corporations care about that, but it would suck for the Greenlanders and our planet.
He will take most of it away in taxes.
And deport to forced labor colonies.
At my last job, I started shortly after the union had negotiated a one-time payout of $500 for every associate, at the cost of the $2000+ bonuses department heads received yearly. The savings for the company were immense of course, because the recurring cost of paying bonuses was gone. And the masses were happy to vote for a free (as far as they were concerned) $500 payment. I still find myself wondering how many yay votes ended up as department heads down the line and realized how utterly stupid that was. But most won’t have done, and simply got free money.
I’m not sure that tactic could possibly work here - there would have to be a contingent of people who actually wanted that in the first place - and as far as I can tell, no Greenlander even wants to touch the US with a 1,300 mile pole.
What use is $10,000 if it destroys their economy?
