Lol @ your team = conservatism. I guess your idea of being on a team is to shit all over your own. Better you own your flaming libby colors, than keep pretending to be something you categorically are not. As for Ukraine Russia--converesely, i ask: why then do yall equate ambivalence and resistance to spending on Ukraine, with support for Russia? If i pollute my avatar with Ukraine blue n yeller, and still remain ambivalent about the war and resist spending, will that make me groovy with the libbies?
tell me how that shows I support military or financial support for Ukraine & I’ll send the $ tomorrow
Plank posted about how our involvement in the war was driving India, China and Russia together, to trade with each other in non- dollar currency was a huge mistake. You replied that cost/price was no issue agsinst right vs wrong. = you advocating for our spending (on Ukraine), bc it's "right" (and Russia v Ukraine = right v wrong). Please may make $1,000 donation to St. Jude Cancer in lieu of payment to me.
if you truly believe that that is what I was advocating, send your Venmo & I’ll send the $ tonight. I trust you’ll get it to st judes
Colonized countries benefited economically. For the colonizing countries it was the opposite. Per Molton Friedman based on math performed by one of the founders of the Univ. of Chicago's school of economics
Not really. Thete's a lot of Scandinavian blood in Greenland's Inuit. Some have blue eyes. I don't see how they'd be better off with a couple dozen mosques
Yeah, third hand accounts of somebody not even named. On the other hand, here is actual research, utilizing methods to deal with selection bias. https://www.cato.org/research-brief...nstitutions-economic-growth-development-india
Derp. That this a terrible logical conclusion. From that response poster might be assigned as having a position on international fiscal policy, but absolutely can't be held to advocating for US spending on aid to Ukraine.
Wow, this is dark. To find "enthusiastic" Greenlanders to back them, Trump Jr. just bribed a bunch of homeless people with food to put on hats and pose in a picture with him. Donald Trump Jr.’s Ridiculous Greenland Trip Just Took a Dark Turn | The New Republic Seems on brand. Enjoy sanewashing that one...
History will repeat itself.... Alaska was once Stewards folly. Greenland is more than just strategic in a military level investment. If the people want to make a deal with Trump, then so be it. We all know the Chinese and the Russia are snooping around their land and right now we all Greenland has. Denmark's military is a joke. And so is European NATO without the U.S.A. Plus we already have an American military base on Greenland. I think we can and will strike a deal with that nation.
The history of colonialism is that in all cases the mother country got less direct and indirect economi benefits than the cost of maintaining the colonized country per Nobel laureate Milton Friedman The economist I referred to in my other post on this subject was the great Jacob Viner, one of the 3 founders of the Univ. of Chicago school of economics and one of the great economists of the 20th century. Viner famously studied the British colonization of India. 1) When Britain controlled India in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the people of India made real economic progress. 2) In the 1920s and 1930s when India resisted and fought against colonial rule its economy stagnated. 3)After India gained independence in 1948 until the time of Milton Friedman's speech below in 1978, India lost ground economically and food production decreased. In the video below Milton Friedman schools a radicalized young man at Cornell in 1978. Skip ahead to 5:30 if short on time. Video is short (8:43).
Yeah, that is largely false. They might not teach this in Russia, but British colonization of India was extremely uneven. Some areas were fully controlled by the British, others were controlled locally in terms of domestic policy. Once you control for selection factors, the regions that the British actually controlled largely fell behind as the British focused on extracting wealth for their betterment. That gap persists to this day. Overall, India fell behind significantly in economic performance during colonialism. India's GDP as a percentage of world GDP fell from 16% in 1820 to about 4% in 1947. It is now back up to 8.5%. Friedman correctly pointed out that India's economy in the post-colonial period was too bureaucratic and too centrally planned. However, the notion that colonialism was "good" for them is largely nonsense, even setting aside the issues related to self-determination. Of course, it is interesting that you are advocating for a bigger government policy (colonialism is massive government), which Friedman also opposed for that reason.
As Milton Friedman clearly said in the video, under British rule during the 19th century and up through the early part of the 20th century life improved quite a bit for the people of India. When the people resisted and fought the British in the 1920s and 1930s India's economy stagnated. When India gained independence in 1948 their economy did much worse over at least the next 3 decades. If you weren't trying to be deceptive you would have looked at how the lives of India's people improved during the 19th century up to around 1920, before its people rebelled against British rule. You are clever however. I'll give you that. For your deceptive efforts, which would fool most people, I award you half a potato : )
The video that you can't even correctly post? Regardless, I provided you with the research. You have "some guy said so decades ago, but I can't link it." That isn't potato worthy work, comrade.
I'm Gonna MAGA You Baby "Greenland is smack in the middle of this New Great Game – capable of supplying years of uranium, as much oil as Alaska (bought from Russia in 1867), plus rare earths – not to mention providing useful real state for missile defense and offense." I’m gonna MAGA you, baby
how global warming is unlocking greenland to mining Greenland’s melting ice is clearing the way for a mineral ‘gold rush’ "Now, the ice probably only really forms for three or four months in the very northern latitudes and the rest of the country is seeing receding ice caps that is exposing rocks and potential mineral deposits that haven't been seen before," he added. 80 Mile currently has three projects it is actively developing in Greenland, including a large oil concession on the island's east coast, a titanium project near the U.S. Pituffik Space Base in the northwest and its Disko-Nuussuaq project in the southwest. Underlining the island's strategic potential as a globally significant mining hub, McIllree said the firm's Disko project could be one of the largest occurrences of nickel and copper on the planet. Tony Sage, CEO of Critical Metals Corporation, which is developing one of the world's largest rare earth assets in Greenland, said ice melt on the island had done the mining company "enormous favors" from a logistical standpoint. Sage said the company had been able to bring in large ships directly from the North Atlantic "right up to the edge of our ore body" at Tanbreez in southern Greenland, adding that the creation of fjords 80 meters deep meant the team had been able to make use of a floating dock rather than a port.
Trump makes a play for Greenland's surrender, sending his genius son, Don Jr., to set the locals up for the fall. Don, Jr., being a genius and demonstrating that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, bribes homeless people to wear MAGA hats and eat lunch with him in a photo-op session. The homeless people did not even know who Trump was. Some were offended once they figured out what was going on. Remarkably, Trump, Jr. was not even smart enough to pay these people in their own currency--he paid them in U.S. dollars. Stay classy, Trump. Trump Jr.’s Greenland Visit Suddenly Gets Even More Embarrassing
he honestly thinks he is going to bully Denmark into selling it to us. world leaders going to have to tell him to f off apparently because nothing else is going to get his through 'Crisis': Insider says Trump threw 'unswerving ally' into 'complete flux' with a call She further notes that, "In private discussions, the adjective that was most frequently used to describe the Trump phone call was rough." "The verb most frequently used was threaten. The reaction most frequently expressed was confusion. Trump made it clear to Frederiksen that he is serious about Greenland: He sees it, apparently, as a real-estate deal. But Greenland is not a beachfront property," the report states. "The world’s largest island is an autonomous territory of Denmark, inhabited by people who are Danish citizens, vote in Danish elections, and have representatives in the Danish Parliament. Denmark also has politics, and a Danish prime minister cannot sell Greenland any more than an American president can sell Florida."
