• Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The fuck does he even want with Greenland. How did this become a thing. Who planted the idea in his tiny head. Is this some Russian plot putin is making him do.

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      3 months ago

      Military dominance in the Arctic. Russia and China are also vying for influence. The US already has a large military base there. Thule Space Base. But taking territory from friends and allies by military force is probably the worst way to go about doing anything.

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      3 months ago

      Probably some misguided thought that somehow it will be more habitable than the rest of the US thanks to climate change (the climate change that doesn’t exist) opening up real resource extraction.

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        3 months ago

        But the people who would go there are rich enough to build their bunkers there already. It’s not like they need it be a part of America to do that.