Nay, do it for Venezuela and Cuba too.
A lot of children can be found on the Internet fuming on both sides about the US about to occupy Greenland.
But Land cannot be owned. It is the most absurd idea. Yet it is the foundation of every economy coming before even the issue of money.
The reason people are hypnotised by the privatisation of the commons is because they are not self aware enough to observe that you do not need to own the land in order to produce wealth on it.
Even highly intelligent people I've spoken to on this topic - a thousand times over 20 years, fall into a hypnotic state when I engage them on it.
During each case history it can be observed that this intelligent person, once I place this idea on the table in front of them, becomes instantly hypnotised. And then its all over rationally. Astonishingly these people are usually the kind who pride themselves on how rational, scientific and down the rabbit hole they are. But they are not the exception. I'd say I can hypnotise 99.999% of people(1 in a million, 6 sigma) quickly like this.
Yet a small child young in days can see it quickly and directly and has no issue with it at all. Perhaps this hypnosis is 'learned' via social functions. The clean slate DOES apply in this particular case evidently. I may be wrong on this. If so its must be an archetype - an ancient, primordial law of nature is built in to the ether, received via radio by our brains, causing the hypnosis to take hold automatically.
Either way, none of us are autonomous.
I cannot say for sure. All I know is it happens and it's a scientific experiment I've reproduced every single time...well yes, one time in a million it fails.
Back to the more direct question of the psychotic battle for land and its attempted outright ownership by this state or that.
We can show the reductio ad absurdum right away: Even the indigenous people of say, Greenland, will have stolen it from someone else before they came in an infinite regression. And indeed this is the case proven by history.
So the golden rules here are:
- Try to take possession of land exclusively - private ownership of it, some call it private property in land and you will deliver inevitable conflict. Primarily because it is inherently unjust and eventually it will be the most important thing to go to war over. History testifies well to this. Nature makes her judgement caring little for morals and fairness. She is never held to account.
- Share the land with justice via confiscation of *only* its rental value(not confiscation of the land itself), plus abolition of all taxation, and you have a technically perfect remedy. Which comes with the added bonus of justice(not equal ownership of land or its equity which would also be deeply unjust). History cannot testify to this yet because it has never been tried, except in a few exceptional sites(where it worked but were too small for it to be a valid experiment).
But who will make a stand on justice? Both the left and the right are harmonised in opposition to it! It is the only thing they both agree to object about and drink to it like comrades in arms. There is nothing else they agree on so this is a giant red flag demanding better scrutiny by our leaders. This includes the good President who I respect this time.
Presently we have psychopathic socialists shouting loudly and intimidating the weak and needy to vote for them through fear and bribes, about how they are going to confiscate the land wholesale. Need I repeat how psychopaths work. They look in the mirror, see how beautiful they are and go about killing by the million without a care in the world.
Then we have a social media battle between the President and the EU over Greenland where the local people have always only been colonialists.
So when will the idea of confiscating the rents alone be put on the table for proper scrutiny? The President could see a huge benefit here by using Greenland as a test case. Why would he care if he only got the rents and not the piece of paper called a land title with his name on it. He's getting the most valuable thing - The Rent for cryin' out loud. No need to conquer. Let the natives keep ownership, so long as they sign the tenancy contract.
Alas, the time taken for this theory to leave my lips and touch the table for scrutiny, all party's are already fully hypnotised...by this spirit from the deep. Who can say if its a social construct or an archetype. All we know for certain is that it happens.
So let's us strive forward into battle and see where it goes. So be it.