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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by TheAlchemist on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:19PM (#43209938)
I think it's the same reason Musk is promoting his Mars bullshit.

This appears as very long term thinking, while in reality is a way to siphon money in the short term and sell whatever idea they currently have under this long term plan.

Not to say that it would be bad for US to own Greenland - of course it would be great. Mars too BTW...

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by pjc50 on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:34PM (#43210197)
Greenland is worthless, and having a long running territorial dispute with the entirety of Europe would be bad for all involved.
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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by TheAlchemist on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:38PM (#43210288)
Worthless ?

Given it's natural ressources and geographical position it's extremely intresting. But of coures the second part is right - it's just not in the realm of possible, without going to an ugly fight with Europe.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by forum-soon-yuck on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:44PM (#43210407)
Greenland is absolutely worthy in terms of being an easy target to set forth the precedent of US annexing other countries just like the Crimea did for Putin before the full-on invasion
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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by dboreham on Friday February 28, 2025 @05:23PM (#43212456)
US has for all practical purposes owned Greenland since WW2.
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