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80%? Maybe, I guess? Before I give the short answer, here are my two longer recent public disquisitions on the subject. (There are others from over a decade ago out there somewhere and private ones for a certain senator from a sunny state.)

noelmaurer.com/p/the-pr…

noelmaurer.com/p/buying…

The short answer is that I can't judge proportions, but sovereignty gives three benefits we don't currently have:

(a) The right to subsoil royalties;

(b) The right to ban exports;

(c) Insurance against future Greenlandic perfidy.

The question is whether the American government values those benefits at a price than Greenlanders (not Danes!) are willing to accept.

I can see the benefits of having Greenland sure, but, as Jeff mentioned, weren't we getting 80% of those benefits for free already?

Is that extra 20% really worth straining our alliances and making us look to the world to be like Russia or China? I kind of liked it when we had the moral high ground (and think it was in our interest too).

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