This is 1814 we're talking about, right? That's only a decade after Louisiana Purchase just for reference and before the Mexican-American war. I guess we might as well give all that back to the Mexicans? You can play this game to the end of time. There's a reason for statute of limitations in law.

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petcat 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

1953 is when Denmark asserted complete ownership of the territory and it ceased just being a "colony". That's not exactly ancient history.

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sillyfluke 2 hours ago | parent [-]

So? The US prior to 1776, those specific colonies that became the US, were British colonies, are you claiming before that those colonies weren't considered British?

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petcat 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Britain lost their claim to those colonies when they lost a war to the Americans. The Inuit had no capacity to fight a war with Denmark. So it's the same situation except now Denmark is on the short-end of the power imbalance, and they're upset about it.

	▲	tokai 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Its not the same situation. Greenland has self-rule, and are masters of planning and executing their own independence. They wouldn't have that if swallowed by the US. Its funny how you appear to be miffed about colonialism, while holding outdated views that paints the Greenlanders as poor natives that don't have any self-determination.
	▲	sillyfluke 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I find it a pointless rabbit hole to go down given the timeframe. I guess we disagree. We're not talking about the independence of the indigenous people at this current point in time, we're talking about Denmark relinquishing it by default because they colonized and annexed it imorrally.

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voidfunc an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean if Mexico wants to come up here and invade us to take it back they can try, but it's not going to end well for them.