The Trump administration is reportedly considering giving about $10,000 to each Greenland resident as part of its plan to annex the territory
  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    6·
    1 year ago

    Oh come on, that is just really ridiculously sad

    I’m sure you’ll find a few loser takers but the vast majority will see through this shit and just give you the finger.

    Not to mention that greenland has, what, 60k inhabitants? At 10k per person, that is 600 million dollar, just to take the country? Cheapskates.

    Then for the Greenland government I’d take this as a giant fuck-you in the face, a direct attack on your democracy. I would not take kindly to this

    • Feydaikin@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      I highly doubt any of the Inuits or Danes living there would accept anything from him.

      They’ve been wanting independence, to be their own country, for so long. They’d never go for selling themselves to the US or anyone else.

      • blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish
        01·
        1 year ago

        I mean, you’d be surprised. If he said “we will buy you out, and you can be your own country, but we get special rights to your land for mining and a military base” … they might want independence in spite of that. The fingers are crossed, of course, as he will fail to pass that property along to them after purchase.

        • Feydaikin@beehaw.org
          1·
          1 year ago

          I think they realize that would be a very illconceived short-term solution to their wishes.

          Plus they already have projects in the works for a more sustainable approach on their own terms. Hydroponic Farms and such.