• @grue@lemmy.world
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      Somebody’s feeding him grandiose ideas about global warming and northern sea routes. Probably some flattering lies about splitting said routes between them and dominating world trade too, once Canada and the EU are out of the way.

      • federal reverseM
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        1914 days ago

        To be fair, China has been investing in thawing sea routes for a while, though largely to free themselves from having to pass through the US-controlled South China Sea.

            • @Nay@feddit.nl
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              514 days ago

              But not a sea! I’m guessing it works like email addresses… As long as someone else doesn’t have it, you can make it your own

          • federal reverseM
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            314 days ago

            Can’t imagine Trump would be happy keeping the word “South”. I think you may need to iterate on that.

          • federal reverseM
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            114 days ago

            Not sure what Manchuria has to do with it … the Chinese are looking for a sea route to deliver goods to Europe.

            • @grue@lemmy.world
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              213 days ago

              So they would go north to avoid US control, passing through [checks notes] the US/Japan-controlled East China Sea and the US-controlled Bering Strait?

                • @grue@lemmy.world
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                  113 days ago

                  If it’s just to avoid navigation hazards and save time, what was your point in mentioning that the South China Sea is “US-controlled?”

                  • federal reverseM
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                    113 days ago

                    Because the South China Sea is a US-controlled tight spot and such spots are obviously easier to control than the proposed Bering Sea passage.

      • @ECB@feddit.org
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        513 days ago

        True, same reason he’s hung up on the Panama canal (and why they always get brought up together)

    • @RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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      It has room to move people into as climate change makes living in the equatorial regions difficult.

      It has a bunch of minerals the USA could use.

      It houses a NATO base that if it were in Russia’s hands would make it easier for Russia to eventually project force westward.

      There are reasons for America to want Greenland. They all happen to be evil which Im fairly positive is a side benefit for the current administration.

    • @misk@sopuli.xyz
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      Or, he recognises that arctic and subarctic territories are going to be worth much more in the future because of global warming. Trump is a major scatterbrain but in general it looks like he’s acting impulsively based on pieces of trivia, some of them being correct. Not that I agree with proposed solution to the issue but not everything he does is entirely dumb and those are very rarely inconsistent with his own interests.

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          He’s filthy rich now that he’s running a crypto scam for taking in bribes, so I wouldn’t say those are handlers rather than revenue streams. Other people are not in control of Trump, he’s a human wrecking ball that confuses theatre for politics, similar to general population that elected him.

      • @doodledup@lemmy.world
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        Perfect plan: support fossile fuels, eliminate renuables, buy Greenland, gain the profits from global warming and melting ice.

    • @Lazycog@sopuli.xyz
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      614 days ago

      Damn you web mercator projection! If only Robinson projection was the default on google/apple/whatever trump uses -map.