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Why? Why does he want greenland?
Strategic control of the melting Arctic, half of which is bordered by Russia and the other half by Greenland and Canada, both of which Trump wants to invade. Also a foothold in Greenland would be useful in an assault on Canada, whose resources both Putin and Trump want. Canada would be fully surrounded by the USA and Russia.
Okay, that makes sense, not good sense, but it's not just the inane ramblings of a mad man.
I think Greenland would be in the same category as Ukraine where Trump/Putin/MAGA just want to strip the territory of all natural resources and then sell the land to the highest bidder.
That makes sense. I always thought it was to build their POs AI datacenter due to their infrastructure.
Seems to be a combination of Putin sowing chaos, trump desperately wanting to be just like his comrade boyfriend by illegally annexing sovereign territory and just general dick-swinging. We already have a base there. I guess they just want to waste more money by occupying a tundra. He must have some contractors that he owes.
Time to toss him on his ass. I’m sick of this horseshit.
I mean, it's easy to just see it as dick-swinging... but they have a lot of natural resources and Trump is already speed-running strip-mining the USA of every last available resource. The wealthy are just done with America and its high standards of living, they don't want to bring up the rest of the world to our standards of living, they want to drag us down to match the rest of the world.
If Europe is allowing Israel to illegally annex sovereign territories, why not allow the US to do the same?
Don’t think for a second that I support that nonsense either. Too many innocent people are being slaughtered because of the greed fueling a handful of leaders. Too many nations are unfortunately complicit. Time for a change
You're right, I hope change arrives soon.
Honest answer?
Trump himself couldn't care less about Greenland. I will bet the left body part of your choice that Trump couldn't point out Greenland on a map or knows a single thing about the long-term importance of Greenland. He is going after Greenland because someone is telling him to go after Greenland. And no, it's not Putin. It's his corporate donors. Granted, this also benefits Putin as it would lead to the dissolution of NATO in the process, but that's just a side effect.
Corporate donors, privately, aren't stupid people. They damn well know that climate change is real and their companies are fucking up the planet. They'll never, ever say that publicly for obvious reasons, but they know it. But they'll be damned if they're not going to make a shitload of money along the way. And they also know that what is currently largely uninhabitable tundra right now is going to become prime real estate as climate change worsens everywhere else. Much of that uninhabitable tundra will become land that will allow people to live relatively as comfortably as they're living now.
Grab a large, largely uninhabited island now, and you'll have prime real estate for a whole bunch of rich people to escape to while the rest of the world is forced to deal with the escalating effects of climate change. As a bonus, since it's an island in the Arctic, mass immigration is nigh-on impossible which means they get all the bonuses of living comfortably without even having to worry about an invasion of undesirables. You know.....poor people. Or brown people. And they'll have the backing of the US military to sink any ships that even try.
Yeah, even Greenland will eventually succumb to the effects of climate change. But for a short while, that's going to become some absolutely pristine land compared to much of the rest of the world, and as far as the rich are concerned, that 30-40 years is 30-40 years that they can continue to live comfortably while the rest of the world gets to choke to death on the environment that they created. And by the time Greenland starts feeling the effects, they'll be long since dead so they have no reason to care.
Disagree on the Putin part. Putin is one of the richest and is the most powerful man in Russia, so he’s included in your rich cabal, but he’s also signaled for years that he’s a geopolitical colonizer and wants to reunite Soviet Union states. His main opposition is NATO which he’s able to dismantle with the help of Trump, thus opening up the door to further fracture resistance to his actions.
There’s a substantial amount of circumstantial evidence pointing to Trump being a Russian asset, his latest policies only further confirm that.
The rich cabal you’re talking about absolutely hitched their wagon to Trump to make money in the instability to come, but they don’t give a shit about Greenland. It’s a pawn that they don’t care about, but their friend Putin does.
Putin is mostly interested in the former USSR. Greenland wasn't part of that. Putin will gladly let Trump do whatever he wants with Greenland because if Trump takes action that automatically dissolves NATO as we know it and basically forces a war between the US and the rest of NATO which allows him to basically recreate the USSR by force while NATO trips over its own feet. Granted, Putin (just like any other world leader) would gladly take whatever he can get. But he doesn't need Greenland. There's enough Russian territory that Putin already controls that will also become prime real estate at the same time, making a Greenland annexation largely pointless. He wouldn't need to worry about sharing Greenland with the others in the cabal when he's got enough of his own to make Greenland seem like Gilligan's Island by comparison.
And yeah, we all know Trump's a russian asset. That's been known for years.
And I disagree about the cabals not caring about Greenland. They know where there's money to be made. Right now, much of Greenland is uninhabitable. Which means it's also cheap. So if they get in on the ground floor now, what will that land be worth in 10 years, when more people start feeling more effects of climate change and there's more of an eye on Greenland as a possible refuge? 20 years? Whenever that land becomes viable. That's a lot of land, and therefore a lot of money. Whether for short term profits, long-term hedging of bets against the very climate change they're fueling, or a combination of both, I can guarantee you there are a lot of people interested.
With that said, I think we both ultimately agree on who will benefit the most; we are merely disagreeing over how much each of them will benefit. And I think we can both agree that no matter which one of them win, we lose.
It's still really far north and you'll never be able to grow as much since the season is so short. Also have the never ending darkness and sunlight. Not to mention lots of it is muskeg that has been frozen for centuries. And it's not as good as you make it sound.
Some crops do very well under the extra long days in summer and basically catch up despite the short season. People already grow grain near Edmonton, which is actually really far north.
You are correct that the soils will be the most limiting, as these can take millenia to adapt to changes.
Just as an example of how productive plant growth can be at high latitudes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event
Definitely not a side-effect. This is the main effect. The dissolution of NATO is his main goal. Besides personal grifting, Trump's strict allegiance to Putin has been his one consistency since 2016.
Trying to rationalize anything on his agenda is just going to drive you nuts.
Yes and no. It drives me nuts that it is happening, but all the reasons are there in plain sight. Putin is orchestrating the downfall of the US with Trump/MAGA and the oligarchs, like rabid dogs, will gobble up the pieces.
Did Putin also have Trump give weapons to the Ukrainians and have Trump train Nazi Ukrainian troops during his last administration?
If you remember, he tried not to by hinging it on a bogus investigation into Berisma and he also discontinued all support later after presumably discarding Zelenskyy since he had nothing more to give the admin politically in an era of ally abandonment. Notably, all of this abandonment is good for Putin.
It's arguable that Trump isn't so much an ally of Putin, but someone hoping to benefit from him as an attack dog to leverage power with our actual allies, but it's been shown time and time again that Trump does not have either the ability or the will to reign in Putin, so the end result is virtually identical to treating him as an ally -- except the added national embarassment of inconsistent messaging.
The alternative is that Trump is reigning him in, but it's through personal favors that we may never know about. This is the entire Russiagate justification.
You are referring to something that happened in 2019, however Trump approved of two major arms sales to Ukraine during his last presidency prior to 2019. The latter sale in spring 2018 even included Javelin anti-tank missiles. Even the Obama administration refused to conduct such action against Putin.
One of the reasons that Trump is having America betray Ukraine is because yes, Zelenskyy raised objections to Trump’s ask for help in finding dirt on Biden, and Trump was then impeached. Trump now has personal hatred for Zelenskyy which was worsened after that massive fuck up that was Zelenskyy’s visit to the White House.
It indeed is.
Inconsistent messaging is consistent with the Trump administration, no? But yes, Trump is ditching the tradition allies of America in favor of countries such as Orban's Hungary and Putin's Russia.
I do not believe that Trump is a puppet of Putin nor a Russian agent but yes, he benefits Russia.
In the end, the number 1 priority for Trump is… Trump.
He does not care about Ukraine nor does he care about Russia nor does he care about peace nor does he care about the American people but instead, cares about himself and his wallet.
Resources (gold, zinc, iron, uranium, and oil) and large amounts of unused land for pet projects (think another super prison bigger than gitmo).
Natural resources, commodities.
Putin told him to
Why would Putin want radar installations and more American military facilities on Greenland?
He’s a fucking idiot, there is no true reason beyond that. Dude’s so stupid he doesn’t realize he’s a foreign agent.
For concentration camps
Mercator Projection
Or
He's surrounded by a bunch of people who play HoI for the wrong reasons.