• BlackPenguins@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Why do we want Greenland anyway? It’s the icy one, right?

    No but serious question. What value does it have?

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      4 days ago

      It looks big on the map, trump thinks he’s about to gain 50% more land for america

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      3 days ago

      It borders the US and is populated by white people.
      Notice how he also talks about Canada becoming a US state.
      He doesn’t want to expand the US to the south, cause that would make Mexicans US citizens.

      But he’s basically internalized Putin’s logic that territorial expansion is good.
      Even though that kind of thinking is over 100 years out of date.