President-Elect Donald Trump has threatened to use military force to invade and annex Greenland, which is currently a Danish colony, because he says the US needs it for vague national security reasons. It’s like the US never invades nice places anymore.
Operation Greenlander Freedom
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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It might be a great place to buy a ranch before it becomes temperate and all the wealthy former ranch owners from Jackson hole buy it up for 100 million dollar houses with great views.
Ted you don’t need commandos to take it over, just billionaires getting parcels of land and expensive coffee shops in the former “Greenland frontier downtown-now with boutiques”
The reality of climate change makes Trump’s various distractions more and more compelling, at least from a “What If …?” perspective.
Walls at the border? Give it 40 years. As the Global South dies, a lot of people are going to be faced with a very unpleasant reality: the Global North doesn’t have any jobs for you to emigrate to. The robots will harvest the crops and do all the other low-skill work. All the countries will have walls (either physical, procedural, or both). Merging with Canada? Inevitable. As the American South (and the Food Belt) becomes uninhabitable, America and Canada are going to end up in a forced marriage: our military, their newly opened farm land. Americanada will be twice the size of the U.S. Acquiring Greenland? Ecologically, Greenland (the size of Western Europe) is the cleanest place on Earth more or less. Perfect for the 1,000 or so hyperwealthy Americans who will be permitted to buy estates on it.
We can all think that Trump is out of his mind. Maybe he is. But it’s a mistake to assume that his craziness has no utility of any kind.