NonilexApr 2, 2025

#Trump has White House studying cost of #Greenland takeover

The WH is preparing an estimate of what it would cost the federal govt to control Greenland as a territory, acc/to 3 people with knowledge of the matter, the most concrete effort yet to turn Trump’s [#delusional, unsolicited & unwelcome] desire to acquire the Danish island into actionable #policy.

#geopolitics #Denmark #USexpansionism #Greed #ShippingRoutes #NaturalResources #ClimateChange
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/01/trump-greenland-us-territory-cost/

White House studying cost of Greenland takeover, long in Trump’s sights

It’s the most concrete effort yet to turn President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire the Danish territory into actionable policy, despite widespread international outrage.

The Washington Post
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While #Trump’s demands elicited international outrage & a rebuke from #Denmark, WH ofcls have in recent weeks taken steps to determine the financial ramifications of #Greenland becoming a #US territory, including the cost of providing government services for its 58k residents, the sources said.

#geopolitics #USexpansionism #Greed #ShippingRoutes #NaturalResources #ClimateChange

Apr 2, 2025 at 5:50amWeb
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#Trump’s WH budget office has sought to understand the potential cost to maintain #Greenland if it were acquired…. They are also attempting to estimate what #revenue the #US #Treasury could gain from Greenland’s #NaturalResources.

…Trump has said repeatedly that the US will “get” Greenland.

“100%,” he told NBC News on Sat. Asked whether it would involve #force, he said that there is a “good possibility that we could do it without #military force” but that “I don’t take anything off the table.”

Show threadOsma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦Apr 2, 2025
And is this estimate going to account for a local population capable of fighting off polar bears and able to disappear into the wild for extended periods?
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Show threadMakeItSoApr 2, 2025

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Time for a French submarine to visit a Greenland port or some similar demonstration of European solidarity? Europe needs to keep in mind that when they tell you who they are, believe them.

Show threadHavyhh2Apr 2, 2025
@Nonilex .....hahaha....what gov't services....🤔?
Show threadRichard Michael BlaberApr 2, 2025
@Nonilex The framers of the North Atlantic Treaty never envisaged a situation where one NATO country, the USA, would have designs on the sovereign territories of two others, namely Canada & Denmark, did they? Putin must love this.
Show threadJohn SpraggeApr 2, 2025
@rmblaber1956 @Nonilex Article 1 of the North Atlantic Treaty states: member parties "settle any international disputes in which they may be involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered, and to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations." (Wikipedia)