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Jason Harvestdancer
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No way. Texas fought for its independence from Mexico fair and square. California was seized during the fight over which river was the southern border of Texas.
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Instead of that, can we give those Confederate states another chance to pull out? Addition by subtraction on a massive scale.
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The Rio Grande doesn't flow anywhere near California. By the end of the war, we had already declared independence from Mexico successfully, and petitioned the US for annexation and military support. The territory was included in Guadalupe-Hidalgo as a supposed concession, the Mexican negotiators realizing that as there was little chance of reclaiming it, "selling" it was a win-win that might and did result in their at least keeping Baja California and the strip of seaway in between. They were also hoping (also correctly) that accepting California as a non-slave territory south of the Mason-Dixon line would help further inflame internal tensions in the US and lead to an advantageous conflict, and possibly the recovery of all of the lost territory (not so lucky on that one; as ill fate would have it they were fighting their own civil war by the time ours erupted).
Whoever drew that map in your post included some very optimistic boundaries of the Mexican State; neither Spain nor Mexico ever controlled that much territory in the northern sector, almost none of it had been surveyed north of Santa Fe and Vallejo, and Mexico's claims to most of that were never recognized by any international party. At the time of the Mexican War, most of the Great Basin and Plateau were still self-governing and had only met a handful of Europeans over the years. The Utes had more contact with Spain, but were cunning in diplomacy and war, and hadn't conceded an inch to either of the Hispanic states.
Texas had nothing to do with it except for temporal convenience and the fact that both rebellions came to be seen post-facto as fronts in the same war between the fledgling democracies of US and Mexico.
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Truman offered to buy the island when the US wes negotiating to put a military base there. Denmark instead went a differant way and helped create NATO.
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But which one gets the shithole country for a neighbor?
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But the wall would get built.
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Buy? Buy? That’s entirely too presidential!
Genghis khan would chuckle at such a notion.
Genghis khan would chuckle at such a notion.
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Good point. Ol' GK would exact a fair price for taking it off their hands.
Maybe nuke Copenhagen and call it a done deal.
To his credit... it is rather confusing that Greenland is covered in ice and Iceland is covered in green.
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Genghis Khan was an island hopper?
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While it is understandable why it would make sense for the USA to acquire Greenland, it is not going to happen. One would hope that after being rebuffed by Denmark and Greenland, the USA would work to foster a closer and more mutually beneficial relationship with Denmark and Greenland. Practically speaking, that means waiting until there is a replacement POTUS.
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I'm sure we would fuck up G-land in a few years. You don't want to see what high-capacity harpoons can do.
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Trump wants to buy so he won't have to talk to them. It's a rich boy's solution to everything.
GK believed in meritocracy and religious tolerance and plurality, recruited into his empire regardless of race, religion or culture. Trump could learn a few things from GK.
In 1946, the U.S. government (under DEMOCRAT Truman) tried to buy Greenland for $100 million. Denmark said no.
Guess that 1946 government with a Democratic President was just as wacky and insane as Trump! Wow!
Guess that 1946 government with a Democratic President was just as wacky and insane as Trump! Wow!