There are at least two others that do just the opposite, but I've not seen you condemning them, nor calling their content "misleading". Maybe you just don't enjoy reading anything outside your own personal bubble?
This is obviously unpopular around here, but yeah, you're mostly right. At the end of the day, this is all posturing. The most realistic scenario is Denmark folding, they'll receive some token compensation for this, and then the land changes hands.
If there’s anything he’s interested in, it’s more likely the minerals. What he would probably like is for US companies to go there and take those minerals
If if was economically feasible to mine there, Denmark would already be doing it. Capitalism demands this.
they’ve been trained to think colonialism is always bad
There isn't a single colonial project that was/is benevolent. So yes, colonialism is always bad. Also fuck off with the "acquisition" euphemism. What the USA is proposing is simply stealing somebody else's land.
In the mid-nineties I passionately believed that the internet would democratize information and usher in a wonderful new era of well-informed critical thinking and general enlightenment
The profit motive killed this dream. Capitalism seems to wither anything it touches.
Henry fucking Kissinger was awarded an Nobel. Obama too, despite having just acceded to the presidency and done nothing yet (he would go on and become one of the most prolific drone striker ever). The "peace" Nobel prize is now and always has been a bad taste joke.
on average that's the expected outcome, but sometimes there's a regression here and there for specific apps