@xenon said
@AndyD why? Do we need to do that to build bases? Do we have a lot of money to throw around right now?
We need to throw money around to build bases?
Bribery is effective and of course far better than fighting.
As for money, you have it: each Presidential election costs a billion and federal elections in 2020 are reported as costing 14 billion. With tarrifs coming in and Venezuelan oil on the horizon, Mr T will finish that border wall and have loads spare for a forward base in the far North of Greenland.
You'd actually get something concrete (if icy) instead of another oily politician for a few years. A new frontier for you.
And the world would have the USA providing far better defence than Denmark against Russian and Chinese expansionism.
I can quite see Trump as another Sir Francis Blake Delaval of Delaval Hall in Northumberland, who, on nomination day in 1754 won the Hampshire parliamentary seat of Andover by firing a cannon filled with 500 golden guineas across the town square.