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Climate change has turned Greenland into a target for Trump
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this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2026
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so it is a petrostate conspiracy between deplorables in russia and the US?
it’s whomever the highest bidder is
Yes, but only in countries who think it will value their land, certainly not Saudi Arabia, which will become uninhabitable.
Turn off the A/C and Saudi Arabia is uninhabitable now, unless you have extraordinaly low expectations of quality of life.
Well, Abha's bearable. But the whole of the Gulf coast, the Najd and the Hijaz, it's either humidity hell or living in a place that's like an ashtray in a toaster oven.
I think the plan there is to invest the sovereign wealth fund outside the country, then have the royal family decamp to a more temperate latitude while leaving thr populace to die of exposure