[Skybird]

The bigger beef is Greenland, I suppose. And while there is some validity in security concerns and strategic considerations, I claim that in the very main it is about the assumed super rich deposits of ressources in the ground that are estimated to be in the range of several trillion dollars if counting all together and that become accessible with the retreating ice.

In other words: Trump is on a looting spree.

Maybe on his first foreign state visit they should raise not the star spangled banner but the black flag with skull and bones.

I read most Greenlanders dont want to be bought off by the Americans, but then also a majority does not want to stay with the Danes, for troubled historic reasons. They seem to want independency by majority. Problem ist, to be independent and thus: sovereign, you need to be able to live by your own means, and defend that. The Greenlanders currently cannot do any of the two, they depend on NATO protection and Danish subsidies.

Beside that, i say what I always say: if a regional population does not want to be owned and governed by somebody else, they have the natural right to be independent and rejecting being governed by that somebody. They just have no right to demand that others nevertheless have to pay their bills. - Maybe the Danes should let them go into independence, and then compete with Trump for the better economic offerings for ressource mining and such to keep the US in check. And vice versa. I just fear that then Trump again would be in the stronger position, the US is one united national state, the EU is not (becasue the Danes would need to brign the eU in,a one they cannot rival with the US, and thats why Trump wants right that: leave the EU out and talk only with the Danes). That gives Trump far more freedom to navigate in negotiations. I forsee bickering by the Spanish, the French, and all others who have issues with regional independence attempts. Its much harder for the EU than for the US to speak from a position of unity.