Greenlandic officials worry about the direction of the negotiations aimed at defusing President Trump’s threats to seize their island. But they have little leverage.

Trump still wants lebensraum

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    The United States has pushed the talks beyond military matters and wants effective veto power over any major investment deals in Greenland to box out competitors like Russia and China. Greenlanders and Danes strongly object to this.

    That’s the free market’s “competition” in actual practice. Extol the virtues of competition and the free market, while undermining it wherever possible.

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      The free market is an illusion. But it’s a good one, and it fools most people.

      Once people in the west really start suffering we won’t see enough people pushing back against obvious corruption. Russia is just getting there barely and look at everything that’s happened there.

      America is just barely getting started