Trump Wants to Know If He Can Buy Greenland (Whitehouse, influence, house)
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Human rights???
This is about buying some land not people.
In 1917 there was language in the treaty protecting the inhabitants of the Virgin Islands so they didn't lose any private property or their status as Danish citizens if they chose.
Human rights aren't at issue here.
It's like Trump asking the Queen of England if he can buy Canada or Australia. Does that sound normal?
Buying a piece of property from a friend doesn't change your friendship, no different from buying a couch or a car from a friend.
Buying from them doesn't cancel the friendship or else the US and Denmark would have stopped speaking after we bought the Virgin Islands in 1917, but instead we drove the nazis out of Denmark in 1944-45. Something a friend would do for a friend.
Trying to make it sound like this is the first time one country bought land from another only makes you sound uninformed at best.
France may not have been happy to sell the Louisiana territory, but a mutually agreed upon price was reached and the sale went through. I'll agree when counties exchange real estate it's more complicated than a private sale between individuals, but except for scale and complexity, that's all this is.
Same as when Truman first floated the idea when he was in office.
Not that big of a deal unless the sale goes through of course.
Lets say you live in Oklahoma and Putin start talking about buying your state. My guess is as a resident you are going to be none too happy.
Remember. This hits the news when there was zero talks with Denmark.
Yeah, unlike Trump, I have never bankrupted others in my real estate deals, and actually pay my contractors. And actually have more equity in properties than banks and Russian oligarchs have. I ain't Putin on the ritz.
Good for you, so what?
If this sale goes through, it's not President Trump buying it, it's the United States, so the treaty would have to be approved by the US Senate and the money would have to be approved by the US House.
President Trump's history in real estate has nothing to do with paying Denmark if the deal went through.
Irrelevant argument to the substance of the issue.
What would be germane would be to question if we could afford the purchase, but I guess that isn't as important as bashing the President for his audacity in proposing the deal in the first place.
Lets say you live in Oklahoma and Putin start talking about buying your state. My guess is as a resident you are going to be none too happy.
Remember. This hits the news when there was zero talks with Denmark.
There will never be talks with Denmark about buying Greenland. It's like the states thinking they can have a talk with the Queen of England about buying Canada. It is absurd. There's no other word for what Trump has said and done. The days of fiefdom and serfdom are long gone.
Have at it. It's best for Trump to repeat the same strategy. He can ask the Prime Minister of Australia if he can buy Canada. They might go for it.
Never know until you ask.
However he'd have to talk to Queen Elizabeth. Prime ministers wouldn't have that authority especially for another country in the commonwealth. The Queen as sovereign would need to approve such a transaction.
How much are they offering? Maybe a trade for Siberia?? Lots of resources there, could be a good trade.
Just because an offer is tended doesn't mean it will be accepted. Denmark isn't obligated to sell, but you don't know until you ask.
So you have that must disrespect for americans in Oklahoma? Its ok to sell their land out from under them? Wow.
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