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When Denmark fell to the Germans in the early days of WW2, Britain immediately invaded Iceland. I’m not sure who moved on Greenland at that time. The North Atlantic was vital not only in the war, but in the decades that followed.

George W Bush pulled the US out of the base at Keflavik.

In 2013, on a bus tour to the Westfjords of Iceland, I learned that a few years prior, a Chinese “businessman” attempted to buy a huge tract of land in the far north of the country, but was rebuffed.

One of China’s largest embassies in the world is in Reykjavik. Why?

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Great question

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Ice cold facts about Denmark and Greenland relations … know what you talk about!

https://youtu.be/LMqnI9jvnag

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More than half of Americans surveyed in a new poll believe that Donald Trump's plan to take over Greenland is bad.

The survey was conducted by Suffolk University for USA Today between January 7 and 11. It includes a representative group of 1,000 people.

53.3 percent think it is a bad idea.

28.6 percent think it is a good but unrealistic idea.

11.2 percent think it is a good idea and that the incoming Trump administration should do everything it can to make it happen.

6.3 percent don't know

0.6 percent have refused to answer the question

Not surprisingly, more Democratic voters - 86 percent - are against it.

But even among Republicans, only 23 percent say that Trump should go after Greenland - while a full 48 percent think it is a good but unrealistic idea.

21 percent of Republican voters don't think it's a good idea.

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great insights

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Interesting; If they US does something drastic wrt Greenland, imo it was covertly in the works for quite some time, not some 'recent idea' of Trump's. I don't type that to discredit Trump, but rather I think all such strategies are deeply pondered for quite a while, and then some politicians/talking head says something, making people think it is some very recent idea.

I don't have any strong feelings for or against.

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I can see the importance of Greenland and Northern Canada for the natural resources they may provide. I'm not sold on them having military importance. As explained in "The Hunt for Red October" about submarine technology:

"When I was twelve, I helped my daddy build a bomb shelter in our basement because some fool parked a dozen warheads ninety miles off the coast of Florida. This thing could park a couple hundred warheads off Washington or New York and nobody would know anything about it until it was all over."

Given that technology has given mankind the power to destroy itself many times over and in many different way, I wish for a foreign policy that builds good fences and good incentives. I'm not opposed to extending national boundaries but I don't think that is by itself a solution. What are the incentives for Russia and China and the USA to not do something crazy?

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Clearly the chemtrailing is not working well enough to keep Russia's northern ports sufficiently iced in during winter.

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Thanks. Rare posts but quite illuminating.

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