Re:US-owned Greenland and Gulf of America? What a weird week
by bryanlarsen on Monday January 13, 2025 @10:22AM
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Denmark promised to allow a fair independence vote. They certainly didn't promise to respect the results of an unfair independence vote with significant outside interference.
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Re:US-owned Greenland and Gulf of America? What a weird week
by Medox on Monday January 13, 2025 @10:33AM
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The interference wars commence!
Re:US-owned Greenland and Gulf of America? What a weird week
by bpodgursky on Monday January 13, 2025 @10:31AM
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Really ask yourself — if Denmark, the colonial state, who never asked Greenland whether it wanted to a colony in the first place, rejects an independence vote (and pro-US) by the 88% native Inuit population, are they the good guys?
I'm not saying Greenland would vote to join the US! But if they do, it would be extremely hard to view Denmark as the "good guys" for rejecting it. That's a real white-man's-burden perspective.
Re:US-owned Greenland and Gulf of America? What a weird week
by close04 on Monday January 13, 2025 @10:44AM
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> who never asked Greenland whether it wanted to a colony in the first place
If that was the criterion for legitimacy in such a claim for land then I have to ask, who asked the native Americans anything? Or Mexicans?
This kind of "works for me but not for you" argument, similar to the one you threw above (US to "buy democracy" by paying people to vote for independence) and then dodged any follow-up, can only take you so far in a quality conversation.