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🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well, I don't know about all of you, but all I want for Christmas is Greenland. |
0:03.8 | Hi, everybody. I'm Bill Whittle here with Steve Green and Scott Ott, and this is your right angle on what the former troll-in-chief and troll-in-chief and troll-in-chief elect has been talking about. |
0:15.1 | It's been talking about annexing Canada, which, of course, is just plain trolling and just having fun with people, which some people, of course, are taking seriously. |
0:21.9 | But there's been a more serious discussion about this island of Greenland, which, as you know, |
0:26.0 | is the largest island in the world, but not nearly as large as it looks on maps, although |
0:31.0 | that's not necessarily to our disadvantage either. |
0:34.0 | Or tear projection sucks. |
0:35.7 | Yes, but you've got to put a round object onto a flat surface, and so you've got to make |
0:39.9 | your compromises where they come from. |
0:41.6 | In any event, there has been some semi-serious discussion about this, and Steve, I big-footed |
0:48.5 | this topic off of you because I didn't have anything else. |
0:52.2 | This is not entirely trolling or speculative. But I will tell you this. I was born in |
0:59.3 | 1959, same time as Hawaii and Alaska, were born as states in the Union. And without |
1:07.0 | questions, 65 years has got to be the longest that the United States has ever gone |
1:11.8 | without adding any territory, which we do voluntarily, obviously. We had the Alaska purchase, |
1:18.7 | which of course became a territory before it became a state, and it was called Seward's Folly, |
1:23.4 | because, you know, he wasted $9 million on some of the most oil-rich areas on the planet and |
1:30.2 | yeah, idiot and multiplied the size of the United States almost, you know, nearly by half again. |
1:37.8 | Is there an actual possibility? Do you think that this could happen, or is this just kind of Donald Trump being Donald Trump? |
1:44.3 | Well, no, there's good reason for it. |
1:46.5 | A lot of people aren't aware of this, but the Arctic is filled with energy and mineral resources, and we're losing the race for it. |
1:54.3 | Russia and China are winning. |
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