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by fifilura 155 days ago
Yeah if there were no other cheaper alternatives I am sure someone would find a way.

But it seems like a pretty long financial stretch to first pay for invading a country and then this.

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Greenland is 99% uninhabited. There is no significant bill for invasion beyond transportation of mining equipment, cheap at sea. They were talking about buying it or the inhabitants, but that is paid with other people's money.

Reply below: It's been under Danish control, and the Arctic is warming more quickly than other parts of the world.

I assume it has not happened because there are better things to bet your money on.