Bill to Negotiate for Greenland

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> H.R.1161 - To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as "Red, White, and Blueland".

In the interest of starting a decent conversation, is everyone aware of the post-WWII Rules Based Order? [0]

Is everyone aware how much the USA and global business has benefited from it?

The current US political discourse feels like this understanding is completely missing, as we throw it away.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_international_order

What is fundamentally wrong with starting negotiations? If they lead to a peaceful transfer of ownership (which I'm very skeptical of myself), that would seem to be within the rules based order. Changing the name is for giggles, it would seem.

Because one of the core principles of post-WWII peace is that national borders generally stay where they were at the end of the war.

The US is now talking about annexing Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal.

All kinds of borders changed after WW2, such as Yugoslavia, Soviet Union breaking up, Palestine, Sudan, Germany, Eritrea, Hawaii became a state, Tuva became part of Soviet Union. Hindu Raj broke up into multiple countries. Negotiating for territory that's not its own nation and only a protectorate of another it's perfectly within the order you mention.

Yes, but the age of large powers invading their neighbors ended, again, for the most part.

Talk to Russia about that. Trump isn't invading anyone.

Annex implies the use of force. For Greenland in particular, this is about opening negotiations. No doubt just a strong negotiation tactic from the US president, and it's not like it's unusual for the US to conduct negotiations like this anyway.

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