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Bruce Perens: The Ham Radio Operator Who Made Trump Want Greenland

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3 points by weinzierl 2 days ago · 3 comments

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dtagames 2 days ago

Its quite a stretch to say this guy had anything to do with it. We've tried to acquire Greenland twice before.

weinzierlOP 2 days ago

An archive.org link, since submitting LinkedIn articles doesn’t seem to be possible, and I think it’s an interesting story nevertheless.

There’s some irony in that Bruce Perens, of all people, posted it only on LinkedIn and not on his blog.

ZeroGravitas 2 days ago

Interesting story but the actual person credited with starting this potentially catastrophic diplomatic embarrassment is billionaire nepo baby Ronald Lauder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Lauder

Apparently the original discussion included trying to trade Puerto Rico for Greenland.

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