You give each Greenlander 1 million dollars which will cost the Us 56 billion, which would be much cheaper than any war.

  • skankhunt42@lemmy.ca
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    Canadian here, it’d take a LOT more than 1 million USD for me to want to be the 51st state. I’d bet most people in Greenland feel similar.

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    Why do you think Greenlanders would trade EU membership for potential US citizenship for a relatively small amount of money?

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      I think the implicit assumption is if they didn’t take the offer (“easy way”), they’d then get the “hard way,” in which the US receives the same end result, but no one in Greenland gets the million. It churns the bile in my guts that anyone on earth is even having this discussion with a modicum of seriousness. Greenland is for Greenlanders.

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    Both the real President and the fake President have a long history of reneging on deals, and not paying up. DGE seized the Treasury’s payment system, so they could remove money from the people’s bank accounts. The tariffs have a good chance of plunging the U.S. into recession, and $1 million really isn’t that much compensation for taking on the risk, especially if inflation gets going in earnest. They’d be on the wrong side of trade barriers with the economic bloc that’s geographically easier to trade with. Would this regime bail them out?

    In short, trustworthiness matters.