So Why Greenland?

$$$: The Private Vision for Greenland

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Peter Thiel met JD Vance when Vance was a student at Yale University.  Thiel hired Vance out of college to work for his venture capital firm, Mithril Capital.

He then helped Vance to set up his own venture capital firm, Naria Capital, under his umbrella before funding his entire political career.  It was Thiel who arranged the meeting at Mar a Lago between Donald Trump and JD Vance that led to Vance being selected as Trump's running mate.

Peter Thiel and Praxis (led by Dryden Brown) are interested in Greenland as a potential site for a "Network State," a crypto/AI-backed, libertarian digital governance model seeking physical territory to escape traditional regulation and build a privatized, high-tech society, viewing Greenland as a "new frontier" for rapid innovation and "settler-colonial" development.  They aim to create autonomous zones free from existing societal rules, leveraging tech to establish new, privatized governance structures, with Thiel's investment flowing through Pronomos Capital.

Why Greenland?

"New Frontier" Appeal: Its vast, sparsely populated, and undeveloped nature presents an ideal "harsh frontier" for building an experimental society.

Relevance to Trump's Idea: The project gained traction after Donald Trump suggested buying Greenland, aligning with tech-right desires for societal "exits".

Topological Fetishism: It embodies a romanticized idea of the "edge of the world" and unclaimed potential, fitting the libertarian vision.

Praxis's Vision: Network State: A digital-first society with physical outposts, running on crypto, AI, and minimal social/environmental rules.

Privatized Innovation: A libertarian goal to rapidly develop new systems without traditional oversight.

Settler-Colonial Ambitions: The project aims to establish new societies on undeveloped land, a concept often described as settler-colonialism.

Thiel's Involvement: Thiel backs the project through Pronomos Capital, providing significant venture capital for this vision of privatized, tech-driven governance in new territories.

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Trump's World

Trump Rules!

Trump For a New Division of The World

By Elson Concepción Pérez
January 9, 2025

We are "living" in the 21st century and, for Donald Trump, the almost new president of the United States, life and the integration of the world must go backwards, and he is trying to recycle the colonialist formulas of yesteryear, with the addition that this time money is the main factor when it comes to appropriating foreign territories and reformulating even the geography itself, as if it were a poker game or the stock market.

It is almost impossible for the reasoning of a human being to be able to "digest" that we have reached 2025 with wars, genocide, sanctions and threats, all with the participation and direction of the American governments, and that, far from using all the resources to stop the human carnage that is being staged in Palestinian territory, new threats, this time territorial ones that would surely become war scenarios or, at least, of destabilization, are coming to the public arena.

Trump's proposal is a provocative attempt to retake the Panama Canal, the inter-oceanic waterway that the Isthmian country recovered when Presidents Omar Torrijos and Jimmy Carter signed on October 1, 1979, the Treaties that established that the Central American country would take full control of it on December 31, 1999.

It is a waterway through which 6 % of world trade transits, and almost 60 % of the containers transported from Asia to the East Coast of the United States.

Even though the Panamanian president, José Raúl Mulino, rejected Trump's threats and assured that "the sovereignty and independence of the country are not negotiable", the Republican magnate reiterated that "the plan to recover the Panama Canal is currently under consideration", and did not rule out the possible use of military force to achieve it, according to Sputnik reports.

In our own region, Trump's policy has led him to expose another of his hegemonic blunders: "I am going to announce in the next few days that we are going to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America."  "What a beautiful name!  It's appropriate," Trump said in a press conference.

All these ideas are accompanied by economic and financial threats, such as "imposing harsher tariffs, if the Aztec country does not accept."

Trump also suggested that Canada could become the 51st state of the U.S.  "If we remove the artificially drawn line, and analyze what it looks like, we will also greatly improve national security.  Let's not forget: basically, we protect Canada," the magnate assured.

In this regard, Justin Trudeau, who until two days ago was Canadian Prime Minister, exclaimed that "there is not the slightest possibility that Canada will become part of the United States".

Another obsession that Trump had already raised in his first term, is that of "buying" Greenland, or, in other words, the accession of that territory.  Defiantly, as is his wont, he said that "people don't even know if Denmark has any rights to that territory, but if they do, they should give it up, because we need it for national security, that is, for the free world."

Let us conclude with the following appreciation: this is the beginning of a new year, 2025.  It is the prelude to a Republican administration in the United States, under the leadership of Donald Trump, the man who, even without reaching the White House, plans to undertake a new "sharing of the world", something very similar to a new colonization, this time not carried out by European metropolises, but under total American leadership.

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