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Re:US-owned Greenland and Gulf of America? What a weird week by bpodgursky on Monday January 13, 2025 @10:28AM (#42684454)
My response is that Russia does not have $733 billion to throw at that project, but the US has $75 billion to do it in Greenland.
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Re:US-owned Greenland and Gulf of America? What a weird week by laserlight on Monday January 13, 2025 @10:34AM (#42684531)
Now that you've agreed that it's for sale, let's negotiate the price.
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Re:US-owned Greenland and Gulf of America? What a weird week by cubefox on Monday January 13, 2025 @10:30AM (#42684481)
What if the population of Alaska was smaller?
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Re:US-owned Greenland and Gulf of America? What a weird week by jlkuester7 on Monday January 13, 2025 @10:36AM (#42684557)
The pop of Alaska is not the relevant number here. Presumably the vote to transfer Alaska to Russia would have to be at the level of the whole country. (The question of whether a state can unilaterally leave the United States has come up in the past and was pretty violently settled.)
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Re:US-owned Greenland and Gulf of America? What a weird week by cubefox on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @04:01AM (#42695193)
> The pop of Alaska is not the relevant number here. Presumably the vote to transfer Alaska to Russia would have to be at the level of the whole country.

No. Nobody proposed a Greenland referendum where all Danes can vote. Greenland ≈ Alaska, Denmark ≈ USA.

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