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I mean - is there anything to suggest that? It's an idea that he floated in his first term, and he's been pretty unequivocal in his public statements.

Nobody skilled in negotiation goes in expecting to get what they want in the first proposal. You know that, counselor. So what you do is go in with a maximalist, ridiculous request that you know they'll say no to...thus when you ask for thing you really want you're not making that your top offer.

Let's put it this way. Do you guys really believe there's even a 0.0000000000000000001% chance that Canada and the US merge?

So bringing this back to Greenland: Let's not focus on the buy Greenland from Denmark thing because that's not likely to happen. The far more interesting questions are

-What would we really want from Greenland?
-To what aim would that service? Military? Economic? Political? Etc.

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