In Their Position, Why Would You Not Want To Be An American Protectorate?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2r3d0r8z0o

Hardly anyone lives there, almost no GDP, almost no infrastructure, surely if a superpower wants you on board it's a no brainer? OK so they have Trump making a mess of a lot of things for now but he'll be gone in less than 4 years. Can you imagine the kids growing up and saying to their parents, "you had a chance to be US protected and you didn't take it? Are you mad?" - MAABOF.

[calmck]

Trump is after the minerals in Greenland as he is of Ukraine.

[youngmafbog]

What is often missed in the MSM is that both China and Russia have experssed an "Interest" in Greenland.

I suppose Greenlanders may prefer either of those two maybe?

They are likley to end up with the US or one of them so best to make the choice now.

[youngmafbog]

Calmick, so what are Russia and China after?

[wolf63]

They don't want to be a part of the US.  Who can blame them? They have their own identity.  What will be next?  Trump will go after other countries to add them to the United States. 

 

[youngmafbog]

Wolf, did you read what I posted or do you think they would prefer Russia or China?

 

[wolf63]

your post wasn't there when I started.

If I was a Greenlander, I would tell them all that my country wasn't for sale. 

[vulcan42]

Trump, as stated, only wants the minerals, nobody ever asks what happens after the minerals run out. Do the Americans just pull out leaving all the equipment to rust away which they did in what is now Kiritimati, Christmas Island, after their Atomic testing in the sixties?.

[ToraToraTora]

14:23 don't be niave, one way or another it's not going to be able to be independent.

[ToraToraTora]

The EUSSR is doing nowt, ditto Denmark. China, Russia and the US are all taking an interest. If I lived there I'd be ripping off the US arm at the elbow.

[Old_Geezer]

Why would they ? They want (gradual & supported) independence, not to be overruled by some foreign power block.

[Mozz71]

If the choice is between being left as I am and being under the control of the tangerine terror, I'd stick with Denmark.

[Ellipsis]

One land's protectorate is another land's gaslighting rapist ...

[ToraToraTora]

Mozz that won't be a choice though will it?

[davebro3]

Denmark hasn't really treated the Greenlanders all that well - if I was one I would welcome an association the USA. There's fewer than 60,000 (less that half the number in my UK town) so it's not a big deal really.

[bednobs]

It might be it might be that they have not been treated well (I have no idea) however consistency is important, and I would worry about the lack of consistency from the US

[douglas9401]

What could be wrong with being protected by a tantrum prone overgrown child with his eye on the main chance?

[bednobs]

Who might next week decide that actually he doesn't Want to you any more

[davebro3]

They would have a negotiated deal, maybe mineral extraction engineering with  proceeds to set up a Greenland "wealth" fund.

Trump is only going to be there short term - he might be gone before anything is finalised.

[Untitled]

if it's a choice between the three then i'd rather china control it. 

[davebro3]

then you're STOOOOPID !!!!