Hear me out:
The US (or at least Trump) wants Greenland..
Greenland is a Protectorate (sorta) of the Kingdom of Denmark.
The United States has Puerto Rico. . Puerto Rico is not a State, it is a commonwealth , more or less a protectorate (ish) it is more or less the same status as Greenland.
I propose we swap them even up.
We here in the US really have no need for Puerto Rico.
Greenland is a Financial drain of Demark. Puerto Rico is a drain on the US.
Denmark lacks a place that is warm, has sun and beaches and such. The Unites States needs an island in the Atlantic that is covered in Ice and Snow much of the year where we can do whatever we want.
Puerto Rico has 3,424 square miles, but it has rum and sun and beaches, Greenland has 836,000 miles, but it is cold and windy. Pretty fair trade for the Danes.
Puerto Rico has 3.2 million people. Greenland has 56,000. Neither island pays their way, tax wise, so that’s a wash.
The Danes give up a lot a square miles of territory, but they aren’t using it, so there’s that. They get a shitload of people in this swap, and warm sunny beaches, which they need, and rum drinks and resorts in which to drink them. The Danes don’t have enough poverty and crime and corruption and poorly educated people that just can’t fix themselves. Puerto Rico has that in spades. Think of the possibilities. But the Danes do need a place to vacation in the sun…
The US gives up a bunch of people on a small island that do nothing for the US but complain and demand more aid to enrich the already rich. We end up getting a whole boatload of land that we don’t really need if we acquire Greenland. We already have enough beaches and booze, so we don’t need PR for that. We also have all the crime we need, so we can spare the crime and poverty that is Puerto Rico….The Danes need both.
Win-Win all the way around.
Maybe, just maybe we can work a deal. I’d be all for it if we can get rid of Puerto Rico. Maybe we can pay Denmark to take ’em if we make the swap.
I dunno.