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Frozen Assets: Why Trump Wants Greenland and Canada
He says “national security,” but we all know not to believe a word he says
After President-elect Trump told reporters he was going to force our NATO ally Denmark to cede Greenland because it’s essential to our “national security,” I posted on Facebook (where you can now say anything) that he’s imagining golf courses and country clubs.
“Steal ‘Green’ land. Exacerbate global warming. Bring in the bulldozers and the golf carts,” I wrote.
Trump does see money making opportunities in Greenland — and Canada, which he says he wants annexed as our 51st state — but resorts would just be a bonus.
What Felon and Elon and their oligarch pals want is the mineral resources of the thawing Far North.
Trump has often called climate change a hoax — fake news propagated by scientists bent on crippling capitalism — but he knows it’s real. He just sees it as business opportunity rather than an existential threat.
Never mind that rising oceans will swamp lower-lying lands and cause famine and more refugees. That’s going to happen mainly in places he’s already called shit holes. And if it happens in Florida, his primary state of residence, big deal. He’s got other homes and the…
