It’s so fucked that we don’t own Greenland. It’s 50x larger than Denmark, no way they can control it. Incredibly tempting. Can’t stop staring at it.
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I want it.
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"While we owe much to America I do not feel that we owe them the whole island of Greenland"
- Gustav Rasmussen, Danish Ambassador to the US, 1946
The ungrateful attitude of the Danes will be their undoing. We ride at dawn.
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Moderately hilarious that they were also offered a chance to retake more of Jutland from Germany after WWII and just decided nah, they were fine
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They wanted a vote, and respected the results. That's why they'll respect a vote of Greenlanders.
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Yeah but that would be for independence, not annexation, right
1. Greenland now has a national flag
2. nb Newfoundland also never got "join America" onto any of its ballots
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We can get congress to make them an offer and I think they'd put it to a vote.
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Unless John Roberts is authoring it I'm guessing it'll be a while before it happens tbf