[jotm]

Let's go by the price of land in Denmark. 25,000 Euros per hectare in 2009. That's for agricultural land.

Greenland does not support agriculture, but it does have natural resources, and can have a good strategic value. So let's say it's 10,000 Euros per hectare, a good discount.

It would cost 2.6 trillion Euros, or 2.9 trillion US Dollars.

Everything has a price, I wonder if that would be acceptable for Denmark and under what conditions.

[grecy]

> Everything has a price

This idea needs to die. It is simply not true.

It's so stupid to say that, and clearly only people obsessed with money actually believe it. We're killing the planet in the quest for ever more money, and tons of people have absolutely no interest in more money. They want more time and more health.

[jotm]

Sadly, it is true. And "price" doesn't only mean money. Maybe a country wants a longer shoreline in exchange for a piece of mountain land or something.

[braythwayt]

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called the idea of selling Greenland “absurd,” in public, which in the world of diplomacy is a sharp rebuke for President Trump mentioning the idea.

The Danes went on to say, in a further humiliation on the world stage, that we are past the point in history of buying and selling lands and people, sending Trump off with a red card.

Everything does not have a price, and even exploring the idea that the people of another nation’s protectorate can be traded like hockey cards will only lead to more embarrassment.

p.s. If America wants Greenland, the easiest way would be to simply ask the people of Greenland, who have their own flag and government.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/23/donald-tr...

It’s a matter of speculation how they would feel about the prospect of being treated as America has treated Puerto Rico, but that would be their decision to make for themselves.

In his century, Greenland is not a colony.

[majewsky]

> Greenland does not support agriculture

Give it a few more decades.