• I did not know that US wanting to buy Greenland has history. Following World War II, US offered to buy Greenland from Denmark for $100m in 1946, but Denmark refused to sell. From Gwern,

    Being an outsider unfamiliar with Denmark, it is hard for me to speculate. One person tells me:

    “If the national budget have to be cut, I think Greenland would rate as one of the last things Danes would like to see cut.”

    That’s very strange. As an American, would I say Puerto Rico is one of the very last things that ought to ever be cut in the federal budget? Heck no! Puerto Rico has repeatedly decided it’d rather not be a state, but at least it’s still genuinely ruled by the USA; if Puerto Rico decided to switch to full home rule, I think I and the average American would care even less about them.

  • From Noahpinion,

    Furthermore, from 1990 through 2010, nuclear disarmament made the world a lot safer. U.S. and Soviet/Russian nuclear stockpiles dwindled from over 60,000 between them to fewer than 10,000:

    nuclear-stockpiles Source: Federation of American Scientists via Wikipedia

    And fewer than 4,000 of those are actually deployed; most are kept in reserves or have already been retired.