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# On the one hand, it is remarkable to see the comic cliché of Americans believing they can buy anything on earth made flesh in the hypothetical purchase of Greenland
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/v-istorii-s-gipoteticheskoi-pokupkoi-grenlandii-s-odnoi-storony-porazitelno-v-realnoi-zhizni-videt-voploshchenie-komicheskogo-shtampa-kak-amerikantsy-schitaiut-chto-mogut-kupit-vsio-cht/
- Published: 2026-01-09T07:35:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:27:24.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Geography, Observations, Society, Humour

On the one hand, it is remarkable to see the comic cliché of Americans believing they can buy anything on earth made flesh in the hypothetical purchase of Greenland. On the other, however sociopathic it may look, who can seriously suppose that people would be ready to sell their homeland for 10 thousand dollars? That is less than the price of a decent car, or a year's minimum wage.

But in the end the most comical part is the notion of acquiring the richest of lands for less money than the Somalis defrauded out of American taxpayers. And even if we take the upper limit of the sum from these rumours, what is the logic of paying 100,000 dollars to each person so that they should wish to become subjects of a country with a debt of more than 200,000 dollars per citizen?

So let us resort to more realistic figures. If the US were to offer each person 1 million, the total payout would come to about 60 billion, which is comparable to the sum by which the States add to the national debt in a mere 10 days. Moreover, 1 million dollars does not cover the total social budget of 10 years per inhabitant of Greenland at present.

That is to say, even if Trump were to offer the Greenlanders ten times the maximum figure mentioned, it would not cover the money that Greenland already spends on each citizen over 10 years.

But even a more fair-sounding figure of 15 to 20 million per person would be no problem for the US, for whom it would mean paying out a mere trillion, the amount by which the national debt grows in a year.

The most dreadful thing, naturally, about this cynical economic and geopolitical speculation is the very fact that real people are treated as a kind of compensable asset, and the possibility of paying someone is deemed sufficient grounds for ignoring any ethical, moral and humanitarian considerations. Though we have seen this before, and shall not see it for the last time

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