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Should the United States acquire Greenland?

In August 2019, President Trump expressed interest in the U.S. acquiring Greenland. The U.S. government has long considered Greenland to be an important asset to American national security. In 1951 the U.S. and Denmark signed a treaty which established a U.S. air force base in northern Greenland 750 miles from the Arctic Circle. Greenland has a population of 56,000 and is a self-ruling part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Greenland’s government runs its domestic policies and its foreign policy is handled by Denmark. The Danish government gives Greenland $590 million per year in subsidies which make up 60% of its annual budget. After President Trump expressed interest in Greenland’s ministry of foreign affairs said the island “was not for sale.”

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Yes
73%
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21%
Yes
62%
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3%
Yes, Greenland is an important asset for U.S. national security
8%
No, the U.S. does not need to expand its global footprint at this time
3%
Yes, the U.S. should buy Greenland and mine it for natural resources
1%
No, and the U.S. should close its military base there
1%
No, and the U.S. should drastically reduce its global footprint

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 @B34MFZD from Georgia  answered…5mos5MO

Well according to Greenland’s own people voting they want to so

 @B5X32CW from California  answered…1mo1MO

let the people of greenland decide if they want to be a part of the US if so great but if not then let them determine their own destiny

 @B4VKL9R from Texas  answered…3mos3MO

Instead of acquiring Greenland, the U.S. should concentrate on building respectable relationships. Collaboration and not ownership which is key to achieving strategic objectives

 @MJStevens94  from Texas  answered…3mos3MO

If the US wants to acquire Greenland, we should do so peacefully, by having a referendum in which the people of Greenland decide if they want to be a territory of the US. Before Greenland announced its independence, the US should have tried to buy Greenland from Denmark, like we purchased Alaska from Russia.

 @B4GDX2Y from New Jersey  answered…4mos4MO

No, not as long as the citizens of Greenland don't want that. I'm against imperialist expansionism. If the citizens and government of Greenland and Denmark don't want Greenland to be under United States control the only way we would be able to annex them is with military force and I do not agree with doing that at all. I also think it would be a waste of funds at this time to purchase Greenland.

 @B6BYVJZ from Oregon  answered…4 days4D

Yes, or at least increase presence there legally with cooperation of Denmark and/or A newly Independent or more Autonomous Greenland

 @B66DBFD  from Michigan  answered…6 days6D

The United States should be able to buy Greenland, but I have no opinion of if it would be right or wrong.

 @B65P65K from Maryland  answered…1wk1W

No, unless Greenlanders actively wish to join the United States. We should respect regional sovereignity.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…9mos9MO

Netanyahu's Aide Arrested: Did Leaked Intel Sabotage Hostage Rescue?

Israeli police have arrested a top aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and four others for allegedly leaking classified information to foreign media, court documents released on Sunday revealed. The intelligence allegedly claimed Hamas was planning to smuggle Israeli captives from Gaza to Egypt.Opposition leaders say the intelligence was leaked to take pressure off Netanyahu to reach a ceasefire deal with Hamas that would bring home the roughly 100 Israeli captives still held by the Palestinian resistance movement. It is estimated that roughly 70 remain alive.Netanyahu has repeatedly sabotaged ceasefire talks with Hamas since the start of the war on October 7 last year, despite heavy pressure from the families of the captives to reach a deal.Court documents released on Sunday identified Eliezer Feldstein, an aide to Netanyahu, as one of several people being detained and interrogated over the leak of “classified and sensitive intelligence information.” The names of the other four detained persons have not been cleared for publication by Israel's military censors.The intelligence was leaked to two foreign media outlets, the Jewish Chronicle in the UK and Bild in Germany, both of which published stories about the leaked intelligence. The Jewish Chronicle later retracted its story.The court documents said that information taken from the Israeli military’s systems and “illegally issued” may have damaged Israel’s ability to free the captives held by Hamas in Gaza.Opposition leader Yair Lapid on Sunday accused the prime minister’s office of leaking “faked secret documents to torpedo the possibility of a hostage deal – to shape a public opinion influence operation against the hostages’ families.”By claiming that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was planning to flee to Egypt with the captives, the leaked documents appeared to promote Netanyahu’s claim in the minds of the Israeli public that any ceasefire deal must allow Israel to keep its forces on the Philadelphia Corridor, which runs along the Gaza-Egypt border. Otherwise, the captives could end up in Egypt’s Sinai or “pop up in Iran or Yemen,” Netanyahu claimed.Netanyahu added the demand that Israel be allowed to continue occupying the Philadelphia Corridor in the 11th hour of negotiations for a ceasefire this summer. The demand torpedoed the talks, as Hamas has long insisted on a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza as part of any ceasefire deal.

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