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France is wishing they had a Greenland not to sell to Trump too (Original Post) Snake Plissken Aug 2019 OP
i was thinking devil's island might be a good spot for a golf resort. rampartc Aug 2019 #1
There's always Corsica DFW Aug 2019 #2
There's Guadaloupe, at least for now. meadowlander Aug 2019 #3
They did. Vietnam. Kid Berwyn Aug 2019 #4

DFW

(54,358 posts)
2. There's always Corsica
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 01:15 AM
Aug 2019

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.
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 02:18 AM
Aug 2019

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.
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 08:01 AM
Aug 2019

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.
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