Comment by sillyfluke
6 hours ago
This is 1814 we're talking about, right? That's only a decade after Louisiana Purchase just for reference and before the Mexican-American war. I guess we might as well give all that back to the Mexicans? You can play this game to the end of time. There's a reason for statute of limitations in law.
1953 is when Denmark asserted complete ownership of the territory and it ceased just being a "colony". That's not exactly ancient history.
So? The US prior to 1776, those specific colonies that became the US, were British colonies, are you claiming before that those colonies weren't considered British?
Britain lost their claim to those colonies when they lost a war to the Americans. The Inuit had no capacity to fight a war with Denmark. So it's the same situation except now Denmark is on the short-end of the power imbalance, and they're upset about it.
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I mean if Mexico wants to come up here and invade us to take it back they can try, but it's not going to end well for them.
because the US would be upset about it