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fortylast Friday at 7:02 AM2 repliesview on HN

If the US is ready to start a war against Europe to invade Groenland, it's certainly because they need more sand and plastic? Of course in weight it's probably mostly sand and plastic but the interesting bit probably needs palladium, copper, boron, cobalt, tungsten, etc


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jiggawattslast Friday at 9:26 AM

Greenland is Trump’s Ukraine. He’s jealous of Putin, that is all.

There is nothing in Greenland worth breaking up the alliances with Europe over.

Trump is too stupid to realise this, he just wants land like it’s a Civ game.

PS: An entire rack of the most expensive NVIDA equipment millions of dollars can buy has maybe a few grams of precious or rare metals in it. The cost of those is a maybe a dollar or two. They don’t even use gold any more!

The expensive part is making it, not the raw ingredients.

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rhubarbtreelast Friday at 7:47 AM

Well, also for military purposes.

And general imperialism.