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asveikau on Jan 2, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Will Happen in the 2020s

I don't know what "adding Guam and Puerto Rico" means when they are already US territories. Your comment seems to imply that this means statehood, i.e. addition of senators and voting representatives. But the parent throws them in with Greenland, which is not a US territory.

ianai on Jan 2, 2020 [–]

Pretty sure only trump has ever seriously posited adding Greenland to the US. I’d love for a source of that idea though.

fiestaman on Jan 2, 2020 | | [–]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_the_United_State...

kelnos on Jan 2, 2020 | | [–]

IIRC the US tried to purchase Greenland after WWII, but Denmark declined back then as well.

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