1d ago

Trump Admin Considering Giving $10,000 To Each Person In Greenland To Annex The Island

www.latintimes.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/36161826

The Trump administration is reportedly considering giving about $10,000 to each Greenland resident as part of its plan to annex the territory
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250411133253/https://www.latintimes.com/trump-admin-considering-giving-10000-each-person-greenland-annex-island-580455
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Actually that isn't a stupid idea. People have their price. Ant will be definitely cheaper than war. No idea how much that for Greenland citizens though.
- Greenland already receives around 600 milion Euro PER YEAR from the Danish Government. Trump wants to give them less, and as a one time payment.
  Greenland, as part of Denmark has free state funded education, with special grants for Greenlanders that want to attend education in Denmark itself. They have free healthcare and access to some of the best social safety nets in the world.
  As Danish citizens they also have access to the EU free travel zone which allows them to visit any EU country without requiring a visa or even a passport.
  There are more benefits that I'm forgetting for sure.
  Unless the Trump administration offers to match all of the above then Greenlanders would take a losing deal. Sure, almost everyone has their price, but this deal is like offering you 100 bucks for me to come live in your house forever afterwards, ask you for money if you wanna send your kids to school or you want to go to the doctor.
  
  Greenland is not a part of the Schengen Area, and a passport is required for travel to most of the EU, except travel to Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway or Sweden where any photo ID is acceptable, if perhaps not entirely practical.
  
  Yep, that $10000 will be gone with the first doctor's visit.
  
  Okay, maybe Greenland should take the US. We can be their red white and blue land. It's a pretty strategic location.
  
  Being annexed by Canada would be a good option as well.
  
  Yeah, the 10k per person would be about half a billion dollars one time. So it makes no sense to get less than that only one time.
  
  Why do they want to leave, in that case?
  
  Who is “they”?
  
  The leprechauns.
  Who would I be talking about besides Greenland? In case you didn't know, they are in the process of becoming an independent country.
  
  They're an autonomous region within Denmark, and they have some pro-independence and some pro-staying-with-Denmark parties. The pro-independence parties predominate, but seem to be playing the long game.
  There is no party that's supporting joining the US.
  
  More autonomous* you mean
  
  Thank you for the clarification. I didn’t know. I wasn’t sure if you meant Greenland wanting to leave Denmark, or Greenlanders wanting to leave Greenland…
  But desiring Independence whole nother ball of wax than wishing to be a vassal to different nation.
- Yes, it is. The people of Greenland have repeatedly told him "hell no!" and expecting them to abandon their principles for the 2027 price of a dozen eggs in the US is selling them short, pun intended.
- Lol, yes it is. Greenland only has a pop a little over 55k people. Meaning that trump is offering a little over 500m dollars for an island who's gdp is well over 3 billion dollars a year.
  Not only is he being incredibly stupid, he's being super cheap about it at the same time.
  
  He's being insulting. "Take this pittance or you might end up with nothing."
  
  Might be hoping for some Brexit type stupidity where enough people heard somewhere that they get 10k if they vote yes.
- I've got an even better idea. LEAVE GREENLAND THE FUCK ALONE.
- Nah, it's the stupidest idea, it's a massive waste of my tax money for something that no American actually wants or gives a shit about. Why can't we just leave people alone, why is the only other option war?
  
  my tax money
  It isn't your money anymore. It belongs to the State. To your Masters. To Trump.
  It is an inportant nuance.
  
  Yeah, that's what tax money is, dipshit
- Thats true but $10.000 is quite little compated to how they benefit from the current government. Free healthcare, free education just to name two.
  
  You have to factor in the cost of living under a fascist autocracy too, where you can get kidnapped and sent to a secret prison for life because you didn't respect the leader enough, even though the leader is a corrupt moron. Which is a pretty damn high cost, and $10,000 doesn't even begin to balance it out.
- satire of satire
- Gahd damn you sound like a cunt
- Selling their country would affect their descendants too, which didnt agree to this

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