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Apologies if a thread about this already exists, but I'd like to get my fellow DU members thoughts about why Trump wants Greenland?
There are many obvious strategic reasons for trade routes and whatnot, but I propose the following... Greenland is Trump's Ark...
-- Trump is demented, narcissistic, yet a seasoned strategic visionary for his own self-interests;
-- Greenland will be the go-to place for Trump's family and his white supremacist billionaire buddies after he destroys the climate for southern latitudes, shithole countries, poor people, etc.;
-- Greenland supports a trade route for Putin to extract fossil fuels from the melted Arctic he and Trump are trying to make happen.
I'm not insane. I'd move there if I could afford it and my mortal lifespan wasn't what it is.
Ponietz
(2,989 posts)delisen
(6,044 posts)rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)targetpractice
(4,919 posts)rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)"t's" jump out at me. You're welcome.
kozar
(2,118 posts)because of his Bromance with Vlad,,he wants a "Siberia" too!! All great dictators have one,after all.
Koz
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Mainly oil, along with gold and various other metals. He and his cronies want to get their grubby hands on them.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Of course the notion that the taxpayers will be on the hook for his Ark only makes it more believable.
FrankBooth
(1,606 posts)A whole lot of ice is going to be melting in its vicinity.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)But Trump would be safer on non-US territory - someplace with no extradition agreement, say, i don't know... RUSSIA?
Sogo
(4,989 posts)I'm sure he's starting to think about where Marine One can take him on 1/21/21 where there is no extradition. That said, perhaps he'll be met at the steps of the helicopter....
HeartlandProgressive
(294 posts)I think you nailed it!
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)A nuclear strike on Los Angeles will result in radiation being carried to the east, which is where Greenland happens to be. Then there's the unknown reaction to the tRUMP FOLLIES by the US
military and other world governments. Nope, the reality is that tRUMP has no safehouse, a condition of his own making with a push from his enablers/supporters...
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)his name on everything. He'd insist it becomes known as "The Great Trump Purchase", and be recorded in history books as same.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,628 posts)struggle4progress
(118,318 posts)to the damage they're doing
He doesn't care about Greenland any more than he cares about anything else: his blather is a deliberate distraction