[ExI] My prediction

Wed Jan 14 14:35:34 UTC 2026

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
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>…But the US is the one doing the distracting…

Greenland would have some advantages if a deal can be worked out with Denmark.  If US money could flow in there, it would be a great place to set up data centers.  Coal and natural gas power plants could be set up there to run them, and cooling might be easier.  I don’t know if that whole thing is an intentional distraction, like the Alcatraz business.  What I heard but don’t know if it is true: a suggestion to reopen Alcatraz as a prison was an intentional distraction used to test AI: protest groups sent mail to the White House, responses were generated by AI, printed and mailed, with little or no human oversight or intervention.  There was never any real intention of reopening Alcatraz as a prison.  Sounds plausible I suppose.  

> What is going on in Iran is far more important. 

>…Iran is important but not more important than preserving NATO, but if the US uses strong-arm tactics to take over Greenland….

I predict the USA will not take over Greenland, and that the suggestion is being used as a distraction or a means to get NATO to beef up its ground forces, so that they will be a better defense for Ukraine.  

The objective measure will be thus: Greenland becomes a US possession by 20 Jan 2029.  One dollar of my everlasting respect is the prize.  I offer 70 cents on a Not for that meme.

> The commies vs the… other commies in Ukraine is disturbing. 

>…Do you also find it disturbing that You Know Whose solution to ending the Ukraine war is to just let the "commies" get everything they want? I do….

It isn’t who gets what.  It is who pays for what. 

  > The Taiwan situation worries me.

>… China's trade surplus increase by 20% to $1.19 trillion, the largest trade surplus any country has ever had, even if you take inflation into account….

So what happens if China grabs Taiwan?  They have all those factories which must be replicated outside China.

> Compared to those hot spots, I figure Greenland is likely an intentional distraction.

>…Greenland is indeed a distraction from other far more important things, but why on earth would the President of the United States want to create such an idiotic distraction?! If you don't like my Mercator Projection Map theory then what is your explanation?  

John K Clark

To keep his critics exhausted perhaps?  Keep them occupied elsewhere, where there were never any serious intentions of doing anything.  Think Patton vs Rommel.  

Do you wish to buy a share of US gets Greenland for 30?

spike

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