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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFrance is wishing they had a Greenland not to sell to Trump too
So he would have canceled his trip over there this weekend too.
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France is wishing they had a Greenland not to sell to Trump too (Original Post)
Snake Plissken
Aug 2019
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rampartc
(5,404 posts)1. i was thinking devil's island might be a good spot for a golf resort.
DFW
(54,358 posts)2. There's always Corsica
Napoleon was from there, so Trump would have a special reason to acquire Corsica. That is, he would--if he knew who Napoleon was and where Corsica is.
meadowlander
(4,394 posts)3. There's Guadaloupe, at least for now.
But I'm sure once Trump hears about the "very big ocean" and lack of Scandiwegian hotties he will lose interest.
Kid Berwyn
(14,876 posts)4. They did. Vietnam.
And the CIA with VP Tricky Dick Nixon as White House Action Officer they had their buyer.
"Would you like two atomic bombs?" These are the words that a senior French diplomat remembered US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles asking the French Foreign Minister, Georges Bidault, in April 1954. The context of this extraordinary offer was the critical plight of the French army fighting the nationalist forces of Ho Chi Minh at Dien Bien Phu in the highlands of north-west Vietnam.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27243803
Dulles brother, Allen, was head of the CIA. He, too, wanted to help France hold on to its colony, Vietnam.