I'm not analyzing Trump's reaction here, we can agree his behavior was/is capricious, that doesn't change my calculus on Greenland.



Smart people make the wrong decisions all the time. Just because Jefferson was wrong or small-minded as I framed it with this decision, doesn't mean he wasn't brilliant on most other fronts.

Mining is not the only resource Greenland offers. There are fisheries, there are reserves of freshwater, there is a slowly growing habitable environment as global warming happens, potential tourism, the potential for infrastructure like ports & runways that can be beneficial for trade & commerce etc. This is just shit i know off the top of my head without doing some serious research.

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Aug 22 2019 03:04pm

This will cost US the access to more military bases in the area.

We got this:

Greenland calls for clean-up of toxic U.S. Cold War bases

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-greenland-pollution-idUSKBN12H220

Badly played, US.

This post was edited by Saucisson6000 on Aug 22 2019 04:07pm

USA: embarrassing themselves in front of the world, one brainfart at a time.

What's interesting is that the short-faced bear, American lion, and woolly mammoths seemed have gone extinct around the same exact time. 11,000 years ago for the short-faced and American lion and there is fossil evidence that woolly mammoths endured in pockets in Siberia for as long as the earliest human civilizations bloomed, such as the ancient Egyptians and early Mesopotamian civilizations. I haven't read much into it, but it's an interesting observation and makes one wonder what specifically occurred in such a relatively short period of time. Obviously the ice age ended, but what were the causes? Did humans play a factor? Who knows. Still, pretty interesting to think about that when ancient Egyptians were learning to build their first pyramids, animals that we can only dream about in books and in museums as some long gone chapter of time were still roaming the Earth.

It wasn't THAT long ago these animals existed. That's the funny thing about time. One thousand years is both a long time and yet it's not. In one thousands years, not a lot can change and yet a lot can drastically change. Unfortunately things like polar bears might join them soon. At least future generations of humans won't have to rely solely on imagination and will have photos and video of what they were like.



Beautiful photography at 0:57.

This post was edited by CarsV on Aug 23 2019 04:03am

Just another vanity project.

This administration is a huge brain fart. Over half the country is embarrassed of the Clown-King.