All that is true.
California also has strategic value. If we were ever invaded by China, the easiest way to defeat them would be to surrender California. China wouldn’t be able to manage California.
Can America?
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Nope…
https://www.statista.com/statistics/312660/us-state-and-local-government-debt-outstanding-by-state/
All that chart shows is that the states with the biggest economies have the biggest debt.
Just like USA has more debt than Belgium, because the USA is the larger economy.
I have debt which I consider trivial compared to my earnings, which a poor person would consider unsupportable.
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Hahahaha! Oh shit! That’s funny!
Makes me wonder if anyone here other than me has ever been there? Thule and Sodestrom USAFB in 1977.
Not an official statement, just one person’s opinion voiced on a forum:
Has he got a point?
I don’t think Musk is interested in Greenland any more. He’s shifted his attention to Ukraine’s rare earths instead of Greenland’s. If he gets that along with all the information in the US government’s critical systems, including everyone’s personal financial and health information his muskateers are hoovering up he will move on. Leave the carcass to be taken over by his oligarch friends and himself. Page right out of Putin’s playbook who Musk admits he has been communicating with for years.
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Called at Paamiut and Qaqortoq and passage through Prins Christian Sund. Spectacular.
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Norway tried to claim part of East Greenland (called Eirik Raude Land) in the 1930s:
This almost ended up in an armed conflict with Denmark, but the case was brought before the Permanent Court of International Justice in 1933
where Norway lost:
An anecdote:
Sometime in the early 1960s a Norwegian seal catcher was charted by the Danish Authorities to supply settlements in the North East of Greenland.
They reached an Inuit settlement further north than any Norwegian sealing vessel had been before. When they returned to their home village Brandal the Owner was curios about the conditions they had met there.
The Skipper, who was known for his quick wit, answered (freely translated form memory); “Well I can tell you that the moral up there were at a low and comfortable level”.
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The big question ISSS?
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Maybe asking nicely is a better way to get to the valuable minerals and metals that is known to exist in Greenland?
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