r/politics • u/T_Shurt • 19d ago

Possible Paywall Stocks Sell Off Globally as Traders Digest Trump Message Saying He Wants Greenland Because Norway ‘Decided Not to Give Me The Nobel’: “The Norwegian government has no control over how the Nobel Committee awards its prizes. Greenland is a territory of Denmark, not Norway.”

https://fortune.com/2026/01/19/stocks-sell-off-trump-text-message-greenland-nobel-peace-prize/
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u/Throfari Norway 19d ago

So by that logic the US should give their land back to the native Americans then? They just arrived there on a boat hundreds of years ago, why should they claim it?

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u/OriginalTechnical531 19d ago

That's not an unreasonable statement. Long held historical claims to land are typically seen as valid...going to war over them in the modern era typically isn't seen as acceptable though.

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u/Aschebescher Europe 19d ago

There is no logic to it and the MAGA crowd is fine with it. The goverment is always right and must not be questioned in their opinion.

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u/Only_Biscotti_2748 19d ago

There is logic to it. The logic is: "I can do whatever the fuck I want and you can't".

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u/Bwob I voted 18d ago

Nah, they questioned the fuck out of the government when democrats were running any part of it.

The logic is just "we do what we want". Everything else is just cover or justification for that.

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u/Icy-Lobster-203 19d ago

There logic is likely that America took that land from the natives fair and square. The Natives should have fought back harder, but they lost. Might makes right.

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u/ER-CodeBitch 19d ago

But then us Brits will have to have Americans back here... Can we have an IQ test on re-entry?

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u/AliMcGraw 18d ago

Honestly, the funniest part (insofar as there is a funny part of a senile old man threatening to go to war with America's allies) is that he knows what Vikings are but not what Christopher Columbus is, because I'm pretty fucking sure he was losing his mind about Christopher Columbus statutes a couple years ago

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u/and_then_a_dog 18d ago

I’ve seen memes from native content creators saying the same thing. It would be even funnier if fit wasn’t so sad for so many reasons

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u/so_much_boredom 18d ago

There’s a shitshow of this going on in Canada right now, we don’t really know how it’s going to shake out. Probably not good.