First of all, people in Greenland govern their own territory! secondly I think they will have a referendum for independence in 2021
What would the hypothetical future value be of the huge amounts of natural resources in Greenland?
Pay up now Donny, destroy your country.
Its worse than that. The aides investigating the purchase don't know if Trump is being serious or not. That's what's got me.
Trump likes to make comments like these, like say certain journalists being enemies of the people and needing to die... but then when someone tortures, dismembers and kills the journalist, he gets to decide later whether he was joking or not.
Words have consequences, especially those coming from the White House. When the President says something, there should be no question of whether he's joking or not. People *literally* live and die by those 'jokes'.
Denmark didn't sell the last time the US wanted to buy Greenland from them, why would they now?
Maybe he watched Game of Thrones and had the bright idea that he could make his wall out of ice.
Well tough luck, laws prevent him from buying it.
The US federal budget is 3.8 trillion dollars. 200 billion dollars is less than 10% of that budget. Its not out of reach for the US to afford that and its roughly a 100 years their GDP so its not exactly a bad deal either.
Buying Greenland is actually pretty good.
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Declare independence, cash in 200 billion dollars
They could literally become millionaires from one day to the other, what can Denmark offer that could reach 4 million dollars for each citizen?
Denmark isn't going to sell because they know that northern real estate is going to be a commodity worth infinitely more than the rarest precious metal in the next few decades due to global warming. And that isn't even accounting for the value of any natural resources.
Trump sounds like a used car salesman hoping to score a deal.