liberate the people of Greenland from the oppression of Denmark. ... It can be done. They can be liberated. ... We will bring democracy to Greenland once and for all, and if anyone tries to stand in our way, it’s over for them. [/s]

How far-fetched is Trump's plan to buy Greenland? | DW News - YouTube, 8.5 minutes [@ 0:27, This would not be the first time that an American President has purchased territory from another nation. In fact, much of the United States was created that way. | 1803 - the Louisiana Purchase was bought from France. | 1819 - the Florida Treaty with Spain added that territory. | 1867 - President Andrew Johnson bought Alaska from Russia. | The U.S. has reportedly tried to buy the island (of Greenland) before. After WWII, (U.S.) officials secretly offered Denmark $100 million in gold bars.]

Trump expresses interest in purchasing Greenland: report - YouTube, approx. 1 minute segment @ 4:42- 5:35 [Notes: Greenland has important Geostrategic meaning for us. We have a very large airbase there above the Arctic Circle that is a big part of our Early Warning Missle Defense System. In 1946, (Democrat) President Harry Truman offered to buy Greenland from Denmark, which controls it - for $100 million (in gold bars). Denmark turned it down.]

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has labeled the idea of selling Greenland to the US as “absurd,” after President Donald Trump said Washington may look into purchasing the icy island.

The suggestion of selling off Greenland, a Danish dependency, will not [be] on the table any time soon, Frederiksen told newspaper Sermitsiaq during a visit to the island on Sunday.

[Denmark's Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, also said that] “Greenland is not for sale. Greenland is not Danish. Greenland belongs to Greenland. I strongly hope that this is not meant seriously.”

Greenland made headlines last week after reports that Trump had “on multiple occasions” brought up the idea of purchasing the island from Denmark. The president later confirmed that he would be “interested” to discuss this issue. “Strategically for the United States, it would be nice,” he said.

Greenland, a Danish dependency, will not [be] on the [negotiating] table any time soon, Frederiksen told newspaper Sermitsiaq during a visit to the island on Sunday.

That does sound tyrannical and demeaning of Greenland's sovereignty status -- forgetful or disingenuous, too, since he also said authoritatively that "Greenland is not Danish. Greenland belongs to Greenland."; like he would not permit Greenlanders any chance to speak by voting on the issue, much less have Denmark ask them by vote if they'd like to be a U.S. Independancy. While he's the Prime Minister of Denmark, perhaps we should send him reminder notes occasionally with words to the effect that "All of our airbase in Greenland by officialized agreements are belong to US!" -- not to him.

, perhaps we should send him reminder notes occasionally with words to the effect that "All of our airbase in Greenland by officialized agreements are belong to US!"

Who signed those airbase agreements with the US--Denmark or Greenland?

perhaps we should send him reminder notes occasionally with words to the effect that "All of our airbase in Greenland by officialized agreements are belong to US!"

Who signed those airbase agreements with the US--Denmark or Greenland?

It's a Pittuful web of Denmark's hostility towards America ever since WWII, seemingly for nothing other than helping to liberate that country from German Occupation: Treaty agreement denunciation; moves to oust us from our US and Canada (aka NORTHCOM) Greenland installations and take them over; Denmark mucking up our protection of Greenland and North America by joining NATO, then arranging for NATO to defend an assigned area of Greenland by using our facilities - even though Greenland isn't a NATO member country except indirectly through Denmark's control of it; intriguings that may also have included France spilling the beans internationally on our secret Arctic location:

Thule Air Base | World War II | Joint weather station | Modern air base - Wikipedia

After the German occupation of Denmark on 9 April 1940, Henrik Kauffmann, Danish Ambassador to the United States, made an agreement "In the name of the king" with the United States, authorizing the United States to defend the Danish colonies on Greenland from German aggression – this agreement faced Kauffmann with a charge of high treason by the protectorate Government. The first US-sponsored installations at Thule were established after the US Secretary of State Cordell Hull and the defected Danish Minister to the United States Henrik Kauffmann signed The Agreement relating to the Defense of Greenland in Washington, D.C. on the symbolically chosen date of 9 April 1941. The treaty, denounced by the Danish government, allowed the United States to operate military bases in Greenland "for as long as there is agreement" that the threat to North America existed.

After liberation, Denmark ratified the Kauffmann treaty but began efforts to take over US installations. Nonetheless, in summer 1946, the radio and weather station was enhanced with a gravel airstrip and an upper-air (balloon) observatory. This was part of an American-Canadian initiative to construct joint weather stations in the High Arctic. This station was under joint US-Danish operation. The location changed from the civilian village at Thule (Dundas) to mainland Pittufik. ... The ratification of the treaty in 1951 did not change much, except that the Danish national flag must be side by side with the US national flag on the base.

In 1949, Denmark joined NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and abandoned its attempt to remove the United States bases. By the outbreak of the Korean War next year, the USAF embarked on a global program of base-building in which Thule (at the time) would be considered the crown jewel owing to its location across the Pole from the USSR, as well as its merit of being the northernmost port to be reliably resupplied by ship. ... Defensively, Thule could serve as a base for intercepting bomber attacks along the northeastern approaches to Canada and the US.

A board of Air Force officers headed by Gordon P. Saville made a recommendation to pursue a base at Thule in November 1950. It was subsequently supported by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and approved by President Truman. To replace the agreement entered into during World War II between the US and Denmark, a new agreement with respect to Greenland was ratified on 27 April 1951 (effective on 8 June 1951). At the request of NATO, the agreement became a part of the NATO defense program. The pact specified that the two nations would arrange for the use of facilities in Greenland by NATO forces in defense of the NATO area known as the Greenland Defense Area.

Thule AB was constructed in secret under the code name Operation Blue Jay, but the project was made public in September 1952. Construction for Thule AB began in 1951 and was completed in 1953. The construction of Thule is said[by whom?] to have been comparable in scale to the enormous effort required to build the Panama Canal. The United States Navy transported the bulk of men, supplies, and equipment from the naval shipyards in Norfolk, Virginia. On 6 June 1951 an armada of 120 shipments sailed from Naval Station Norfolk. On board were 12,000 men and 300,000 tons of cargo. They arrived at Thule on 9 July 1951. Construction, aided by continuous daylight in summer, took place around the clock. The workers lived on board the ships until quarters were built. Once they moved into the quarters, the ships returned home.

On June 16, 1951, the base was accidentally discovered by French cultural anthropologist and geographer Jean Malaurie and his Inuit friend Kutikitsoq, on their way back from the geomagnetic North Pole.[6]

President Trump tweets image of new Trump Tower on the shores of Greenland | Fox News Video, 26 seconds

Respectfully wrote: "I promise not to do this to Greenland!" above the pic - which looks like a massive gold bar that landed there vertically on beachfront property, but it's not really a gold bar. It just looks like one. I don't know if we even still have any of those here but we can probably find or mint some silver bars, if Greenland would like to consider becoming a non-dependancy of Denmark and a U.S. Independancy instead. : ]

The Danes sat on their hands while Europe was falling, let the Germans in without a whimper, fed the German army during a long war, thousands of Danes joined the Wafen SS. There was a German weather unit stationed in Greenland during the war.

The Danes, Swiss and Spanish did very well during WW2.

We will bring democracy to Greenland once and for all, and if anyone tries to stand in our way, it’s over for them.

And there it is. It's not enough to inflict Islam and Muslims on them,you want them to remain democrats.

What do you have against the Danes? AFAICT,they have been harmless since they bled out their good genes hundreds of years ago,leaving only castrated sheep that look like men running the country.

Be merciful and allow them to keep Greenland. They are going to need some place to go to get away from the Muslims because they obviously don't have the balls necessary to fight them and toss them out of Denmark.

It's a Pittuful web of Denmark's hostility towards America ever since WWII, seemingly for nothing other than helping to liberate that country from German Occupation:

They might not have liked the Germans,but at least the Nazi's were firm masters that didn't mind dominating them like the sheep they are. The Danes DID like that,and they miss it.

Now that the USSR no longer exists,they didn't even have a potential master available to take the place of the Nazi's,so they started inviting Muslims in to take over control and crack the whip for them.

The Danes sat on their hands while Europe was falling, let the Germans in without a whimper, fed the German army during a long war, thousands of Danes joined the Wafen SS.

Danes are ethnic Germans.

if Greenland would like to consider becoming a non-dependancy of Denmark and a U.S. Independancy instead

Unlikely if they look at the state of other US dependencies like Puerto Rico, the US Virgins or what happened to the Philippines once we got hold of them.

I don't know whether they are happy under the Danes or not. I was there a few years back but the subject never came up. I also visited the Faroes, also a Danish dependency, and got the impression that they would prefer independence.

Denmark migrants Lindholm Island

I don't see why anybody wouldn't want DC to turn Greenland into one huge military installation. Hey, there's TERR'ISTS out there!

Just how many muds would you like them to welcome, Ma'am?

Not sure if they are allowed to determine that for themselves. Might be an EU rule. I do know the Poland and Hungary have been threatened with EU sanctions for not allowing in all that want to come.

(Unspoken reason for Brexit.)

Not what I asked you. How much darker do you want Denmark's population to get?

Not my decision to make.

Are you an anti-borders racial liberal starting 8/20/19? Suddenly you're writing about immigration like some SJW schoolteacher or NYT editorialist.

Obviously I'm not asking for a decision, just responding to your bizarre statement.

Are you an anti-borders racial liberal starting 8/20/19? Suddenly you're writing about immigration like some SJW schoolteacher or NYT editorialist.

What about my post do you consider bizzare?

And what gives you the idea I am anti-borders?

The Danes aren't that welcoming of immigrants. Not quite as intolerant as some Eastern European countries and, more recently, Italy, but still

Denmark migrants Lindholm Island

I stand corrected. Thank you,and good for them.

Mebbe I'm going overboard, but you spoke in the exact lingo of 'liberalism' = 'welcoming' and 'intolerant'.

Sneakypete understood :-)

And who am I to make value judgments?

Who are you?

A bot, of course.