Opinion/Editorial
GREENLAND, AN ISLAND OF PEACE
56,000 people, mostly native Inuit (Eskimo) in makeup and speaking Greenlandic, have been on the island, an island just over one quarter larger than Alaska, having lived there for 25,000 years before the time of Christ, are a peaceful people who have worked a hardscrabble existence because the country is 80 percent an ice sheet and has huge mountains all over it.
Eric the Red named it that back in about 989 A.D. because he took up residence and ownership there and wanted to attract settlers. Before he came along, it was appropriately called Iceland before Iceland. The people there are happy and comfortable, much more so since Denmark ‘inherited’ the place in 1949. The Danes brought free medicine, shelter, education, and an income of about $8,000 a year to each resident.
The United States, if it conquered Greenland, as this leader keeps intimating, does not share its mineral wealthy to the citizens (Except in Alaska, where each citizen gets a thousand dollars a year), does not provide free medicine, and certainly only provides some free education. No wonder the Inuit population loves Denmark, not to mention that Denmark does not mess with them.
The ice sheets covering most of the interior land range in depth from one to over two miles. If they all melted, then the oceans of the world would rise 23 to 25 feet on every shore. The wealth of minerals on the island has one big downside. Penetrating the ice and then working in the mountain-covered areas would be extremely hazardous and expensive to the point where little drilling or mining is done there.
The Russians go around the island in their ships to the tune of about 55 of them per year, and the Chinese have less presence than that. For comparison, Singapore has over 130,000 ships go by every year. Neither the Russians nor the Chinese, who do not port ships there, want the island because it’s basically nearly uninhabitable without either significant cultural experience (like the Inuit) or huge investments that might never pay off. The U.S. has one military base on the island up in the north, which it could have under the 1951 treaty, as many as it wants, but it does not find the land there hospitable either. Soldiers, sailors, and Air Force personnel are generally sent there as a non-judicial punishment. One cannot forget about temperatures when discussing Greenland, particularly since it experiences about nine months of winter and three or fewer months in summer. Summers average 53 degrees for high,s and winters are below zero most days and nights, sometimes more than 30 below.
The question, now that you’ve read this article and probably fact-checked a good part of it, is why would the U.S. risk a war to attack and take it over?
Probably because of bald-faced lies. The U.S. attacked and ‘took over’ Venezuela because of terroristic drug runners in offshore speedboats…or that was the story. Once the president was taken in the attack the leader of the U.S. admitted that were after the oil, to enrich the people there and the U.S. Erase the people part of that sentence and substitute in the Trump family and then add the oil companies of the U.S. So, the reason the leader gives for wanting Greenland is for security because with the Russians and Chinese sailing around the island there is a likelihood that one of them will take it. Balderdash, of course.
The real reason? Trump didn’t get a real Nobel Peace Prize, and he simply wants to oversize the USA for his ego. Then there’s the Epstein tapes, none of them being released by whatever the puppy-killing (and goat) bombshell Stafford wife we have all come to either laugh at or simply try to look away when she says anything anymore.
Will the U.S. risk breaking up NATO and going to war over Greenland? The answer is yes, as it was quite a demonstration to watch the military of the USA commit one heinous crime after another to satisfy whatever swirling inane insanity our leader wants to do to the country daily to keep those 1700 or so Epstein videos off the air. Stand by, Greenland, the island of peace, for life is about to change.
