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When considering whether the United States might purchase Greenland from Denmark, first consider Denmark’s extremely tenuous claim on the world’s largest island in the first place.
Norse Vikings had a few tiny settlements on Greenland during the medieval warming period, beginning around 986 AD. These settlements vanished, that is, they died out completely with the colder weather that followed the temporary warming period. There were no Vikings left in Greenland by the middle of the 1400s. The only humans remaining on Greenland were the nomadic Greenlandic Inuit, who still live there.
In the 1600s, Norway-Denmark, then a single country, reasserted its sovereignty over Greenland based on the prior Norse settlements. In 1814, Norway and Denmark split apart, and Denmark continued to claim ownership of Greenland.
Copenhagen lost its tenuous control of Greenland when Denmark was occupied by the German Nazis in 1940. In 1941 the United States occupied Greenland to use it during World War 2. The USA built airfields to serve as refueling sites for trans-Atlantic flights, and as bases for anti-submarine warfare. (These airfields still serve as Greenland’s international airports.)
After the end of WW2 in 1945, for official purposes, Denmark again “took control” of Greenland. Meanwhile, the USA retained and expanded its military bases, later for Cold War purposes given Greenland’s strategic location. Over the decades America has continued to pump money into Greenland and build up its infrastructure.
steelcutter.substack.com
It pretty much already is ours let's just take it why not.. maybe we can hock it and pay off some of the debt.. maybe build a hurricane victim a house... would that be racist
Eggs
January 6th
Norse Vikings had a few tiny settlements on Greenland during the medieval warming period, beginning around 986 AD. These settlements vanished, that is, they died out completely with the colder weather that followed the temporary warming period. There were no Vikings left in Greenland by the middle of the 1400s. The only humans remaining on Greenland were the nomadic Greenlandic Inuit, who still live there.
In the 1600s, Norway-Denmark, then a single country, reasserted its sovereignty over Greenland based on the prior Norse settlements. In 1814, Norway and Denmark split apart, and Denmark continued to claim ownership of Greenland.
Copenhagen lost its tenuous control of Greenland when Denmark was occupied by the German Nazis in 1940. In 1941 the United States occupied Greenland to use it during World War 2. The USA built airfields to serve as refueling sites for trans-Atlantic flights, and as bases for anti-submarine warfare. (These airfields still serve as Greenland’s international airports.)
After the end of WW2 in 1945, for official purposes, Denmark again “took control” of Greenland. Meanwhile, the USA retained and expanded its military bases, later for Cold War purposes given Greenland’s strategic location. Over the decades America has continued to pump money into Greenland and build up its infrastructure.
On Purchasing Greenland . . .
At least we won't try to genocide the Greenlandic Inuit with a secret IUD implantation scheme like Denmark did.
steelcutter.substack.com
It pretty much already is ours let's just take it why not.. maybe we can hock it and pay off some of the debt.. maybe build a hurricane victim a house... would that be racist
Eggs
January 6th
