Doesn’t the US have plenty of these materials, it’s just too expensive to mine it because of environmental protection legislation, wages, energy costs, missing infrastructure for it and so on? This wouldn’t change in Canada/Greenland.
It would… if the annexed territories became a special economic zone where, magically, slavery was made completely legal.
For an example what might be yet to come, you could take a look at the horrifying history of the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal which happened in a similarly hostile environment.
Of course, you are theoretically completely right. But Greenland has absolutely 0 infrastructure, not even basics like roads between places, and almost no people, and Canada would resist so powerfully (they have nuclear weapons) that it’s also completely unrealistic.
Edit: I don’t mean to defend that at all. I’m just saying that Canada is already in Trump’s crosshairs. This doesn’t fundamentally change the situation.
I’ve been seen as a giant baby-snatching predator by loopy crows defending their nest. That doesn’t mean I am one.
At this point, most of the world is getting past thinking what Trump and his cronies see them as, as it’s likely to change dramatically from hour to hour.
This is bad for Canada. US might try to take ours - by force.
Doesn’t the US have plenty of these materials, it’s just too expensive to mine it because of environmental protection legislation, wages, energy costs, missing infrastructure for it and so on? This wouldn’t change in Canada/Greenland.
It would… if the annexed territories became a special economic zone where, magically, slavery was made completely legal.
For an example what might be yet to come, you could take a look at the horrifying history of the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal which happened in a similarly hostile environment.
Of course, you are theoretically completely right. But Greenland has absolutely 0 infrastructure, not even basics like roads between places, and almost no people, and Canada would resist so powerfully (they have nuclear weapons) that it’s also completely unrealistic.
Canada and Greenland should also institute export licensing rules on critical minerals too
I’m truly afraid that might be one of their hopes.
Mines in Canada are privately owned. I’d be down for nationalizing them. To protect them.
Aren’t you already seen as the 51st state?
Edit: I don’t mean to defend that at all. I’m just saying that Canada is already in Trump’s crosshairs. This doesn’t fundamentally change the situation.
I’ve been seen as a giant baby-snatching predator by loopy crows defending their nest. That doesn’t mean I am one.
At this point, most of the world is getting past thinking what Trump and his cronies see them as, as it’s likely to change dramatically from hour to hour.
But we might get fed up with the noisy crow.
Most Americans think that’s fucking stupid
And it totally is. Stupid, and traitorous.