Getting Greenland

PRESIDENT TRUMP appears to be poised upon the precipace of doing two things that I never would have thought any American president, even and including the Donald, would ever do, or even consider doing. To attack, occupy, and sieze control of Greenland for possession by the United States, and to flood the cities of the United States with military troops. Obviously, I have been naive. The potential acquisition of Greenland has been discusses before; its one of those ideas which floats around every couple of generations or so, attracts some attention, and then just sort of blows over and away as folks lose interest in talking about it and nothing gets done. It has never actually taken place, the seizure of Greenland by the U.S., primarliy because it would be a bad idea,and, deep down, whether or not it wants to admit it, it, the United States, knows it. For one thing, its the same argument you hear against opening the border and letting in all the immigrants who want and try to enter the country; we can't seem to even take care of all the people we already have here, so, why should we encourage more to come here? The roughly fifty seven thosuand isolated souls who live in Greenland overwhelmingly do not want to become part of the United States, and have made that abundantly clear. That fact actually matters, or should. The fact that Greenland's patron nation Denmark is sending armed forces across the North Atlantic and landing them in Greenland in defensive formations should tell us something. The Danes want to maintain the status quo, and are willing to fight to do so. You wouldn't normally think that it would be possible for anybody to get into a war with Denamrk, but if anybody can, leave it to Donroe the Prevaricator. With Trump, all bizarre things are possible. A quick glance at ye olde globe tells us that if any foreign country should "own" Greenland, if Greenland, with its small population and huge land mass to govern and monitor should be a part of any other country and benefit from said mambership, that country should be Canada. Nobody seems to be discussing or exploring this option. It amy be that the current Canadian government is content with the already enormous terrority for which it is responsible. To maintain a thriving economy and a high standard of living for Greenland's meager population requires considrable economic intercourse with other countries, most notably the United States, Canada, and Europe. Trump, for now, seems to be painting himself into a corner. He has openly committed to getting Greenland, but is faced with major obstacles, including in Congress and among American voters. It has been pointed out, and bears repeating, that under existing agreements between Denmark, Greenland, and the United States, the United States has access to everything it wants and needs from the huge resource rich island, including several military bases on its soil, where they have been for decades. Corporate industrial America wants Venezuela and Greenland for their natural rresources, and the history has been that what America wants, America gets. The Trump-Republican argument that the U.S, needs Greenland for security purposes is pure fiction, of course. For security purposes, we already have Greenland. No naion has been a better friend and ally to the United Stats than Denmark. Taking Europe into considration, Trump threatens to destroy N.A.T.O,just as his threats to occupy American cities which vote for Democrats with the military. The fascist government which only recently seemed so unlikely has come to America, perhaps to stay.