John Hjorth

Thank you for the book recommandation, @Xerxes, I've now bookmarked it. I hope you'll eventually open a topic about it in the Books Forum.

@lnofeisone, Great post. I think it's the inner meaning af 'the art of the deal'. I'm personally 95 per cent sure, that POTUS hasen't asked his own administration, what really exists of agreements among Greenland, Denmark and the United States of America, that regulate the matter he is contemplating, simply because he doesen't care about it. The rest, the 5 percent in the outcome space, I personally allocate to that POTUS did know of it, but did choose to disregard the facts, because the facts did bot fit his agenda, and me might eventually get away with it without any protests, like with his big lies, ref. POTUS' public, on video, comment about the matter : 'I don't know why, but likely some hundreds years ago a Danish ship shored somewhere on Greenland ...' [, likely centuries before USA even existed].

@73 Reds, Especially for you [H/T to @Sweet ] : - - - o 0 o - - - Furthermore : In Danish : Aarhus University - Danmarkshistorien.dk : Erklæring fra USA om Danmarks højhedsret til Grønland, 4. august 1916 Text : In English : Aarhus University - Danmarkshistorien.dk : Declaration from the United States on Denmark's sovereignty over Greenland, August 4, 1916 Screen shot :

That I'll buy that at par, James [ @james22 ], thanks.

SD [ @SharperDingaan ], We could also - for security reasons - throw them in a temporary asylum camp, like USA does with incoming strangers, whose papers aren't in order [temporary, because there isen't already such a camp in Greenland]. - - - o 0 o - - - Colurful americans have visited Grenland recently - please enjoy the video of this guy from Bikers for Trump, up there, just to help... The best part of it is there aren't really any roads up there to ride on. [ - It's almosty killing me!]: https://nyheder.tv2.dk/live/2025-01-06-kampen-om-groenlands-fremtid/bikers-for-trump-sender-live-fra-nuuk--jeg-er-her-for-at-stoette-trump?entry=bea92dce-c2ea-48f6-ae91-d858b364922b.

@73 Reds, Sure, and yes, on surface, and they of course are welcome. The foreign policy and security policy for Greenland is not a matter for the Grenlandic government in Nuuk, it's a matter for the Danish government in Copenhagen [,where Greenland has 2 MPs out of 187]. This is according to Total radio silence from there, like an ostrich burying its head in the sand. It better come forward as soon as possible. The whole Danish population is waiting for a reaction.

@73 Reds, DR - dr.dk - Greenland [March 22nd 2025] : US National Security Advisor and Vice President's Wife Travel to Greenland Subtitle : According to DR's information, the visit is scheduled to take place next week. - - - o 0 o - - - Sermitsiaq [March 22nd 2025] : Malik Berthelsen has refused to meet with JD Vance's wife Subtitle : Mayor of Qeqqata Municipality, Malik Berthelsen, has declined a request to meet with JD Vance's wife during her visit to Sisimiut. He informs Sermitsiaq that he has received an inquiry, but due to the ongoing election campaign, he has chosen to decline their request for a meeting. - - - o 0 o - - - DR - dr.dk - Inland [March 23rd 2025] : Plane with Danish officers on its way to Greenland Subtitle : The Police are going to Greenland in connection with the upcoming visit from the United States. - - - o 0 o - - - YouTube - FOX 29 Philadelphia[March 5th 2025] : President Trump has special message for Greenland - - - o 0 o - - - Guardian News [March 13th 2025] : Nato 'might have to get involved' in US takeover of Greenland, says Trump - - - o 0 o - - - What to think?

Mike [ @cubsfan ], My last post above likely turned out too negative. POTUS' efforts to stop the hostilities, and thereby the killings of Ukrainian and Russian citzens - soldiers and civilians - are noble. And at least we are in a better situation now than just after the meeting in the White House between Volodymyr Zelenskyj and Donald Trump, which was a meltdown. Let's also hope for a good outcome of the meetings in Saudi Arabia next week, where I understand three delegations are participating, American, Russian and Ukrainian.

Mike [ @cubsfan ], My personal expectations are really irrelevant, because I'm an ordinary Danish citizen, not a decision maker in all this mess. POTUS , and thereby USA, has really nothing to do with this, forward looking, because POTUS wants USA out of this. The whole approach by USA to this conflict by now is sick, deranged, unless you can explain the logic in it to me. [You can't.] It has become one the personal 'success criterias' of your POTUS, self-determined, self-ordered and self-appointed, while simultainously, he wants absolutely nothing to do with it. For him, it's all about money.

@73 Reds, I'll naturally answer your question here, and after that, I hope we in this topic can get back to the Russian-Urainian exclusively. [I think it has been me derailing this topic here. ] First , answering your question is actually a bit academic, I'll say. That's because the inuits have never had a currency, Second, answering your question is actually a bit academic, I'll say. That's because keeping your haired surface of your body [hair, armpits and pubic areas] free of all kind of bugs [ leece, etc.] took place by the use of urin. [I mean sharing a whole night with the wife of the male host should be considered quite an accomplishment]. No pharmacy down the road at the corner available, to buy some kind of skin care], nor even a shop nearby to buy shampoo, Third, answering your question is actually a bit academic, I'll say. That's because such 'incidents' were considered good in their nature, in most cases adding to the gene pool diversity in a constantly moving around tribe, who at times had issues with inbreeding. Such sperm was then the new gold and crypto currency! One new , likely 'pale' 'cross bread' in the tribe, attractive to anyone, the effective inbreading counter, to get the tribe going, the semi pale skin eventually geeting breed away! - - - o 0 o - - - You americans don't really know what you are messing around with by now. - - - o 0 o - - - Now, back to 'the war'.

No matter what's considered netiquette in that respect, we all here on CofB&F vill forgive you, I'm sure, if you by posting so may have been in breach of such netiquette.

Mike [ @cubsfan ], It's about working professionally on top political level among Putin and Trump. It's obvious for everybody, that there is doubt about what actually was agreed on between the two men under their telephone conversation. That's because a bullet point transcipt - in both languages - of what they agreed on wasen't produced, and released, which should be done by the teams of the men, the result and outcome here ending up being general non-sense worthless, useless comments from the two men about 'positive talks'. That is also why the warefare activities have continued unchanged. Putin is not giving in on anything really on behalf of Russia, before he is under severe threats of getting really hurt. Untill then, it's for him just the usual KGB approach, saying really nothing, being impossible to get a real and firm hold on, like trying to grab a slimy eel. Untill that point in time, he [Putin] will likely continue to do whatever he might decide to do, constantly bluffing his way through it all. In short, Trump was really getting played here by the most experienced negotiator here. It'll be interesting to observe what happens, when Trump realizes that Putin here has a modus operandi similar to his own regarding dealing with the truth. - - - o 0 o - - - I don't trust any of these two men - at all. I woulden't trade a second car with any of them. I'm expressing myself this way because I'm a Dane from what is called the Sothern part of Denmark, which consists of Jutland, Funen and Sealand and surrounding minor or small islands : But if I was a Dane by being Greenlandic, I would express it this way : "I woulden't let any of these men sleep with my wife, if they were visiting.' [ ] Explainer : Earlier, when the original Greenlandic population was nomads, the culture was characterized by a great degree of hospitality, meaning, among other things, if you had a guest visiting over night, you did not only provide furs to lay on and to cover the guest to stay warm, you also offered the guest to 'lend' your wife to the guest to sleep with, to keep the guest warm under the visit!

New York Times - Opinion - Thomas L. Friedman [March 18th 2025] : I Don’t Believe a Single Word Trump and Putin Say About Ukraine. I have posted a few times about specifically this point of view, in relation to the dynamics between these two men. The real point in this opinion has also crossed my mind : Here, it's Saturday afternoon, spring has arrived, and the sun is shining 'gerade' from a clear blue sky, so I'm temped to ask the question : Was the above quoted New York Times opinion funny? -Please choose among one of the following options : a. Yes, b. Yes, c. I don't know.

Now that was fun [or not], now please follow me to the nearest bathroom where we all can wash and scrub our mouth, language, mindset and way of thinking :

Thank you, @Munger_Disciple, I have to say here I have a hard time thinking about : How this proposal in the first place ended up on the boards agenda for proposals to the annual general meeting to be processed, How it was processed by the board while on the boards agenda for that meeting. I do not even feel sure it was a proposal from Mr. Buffett to the board to do so!

Perhaps especially for @gfp, @Munger_Disciple, @yesman182 and @73 Reds, but perhaps also of interest for other persons here on CofB&F interested in Berkshire, Ravi Nagarajan has written an interesting article about his review of the Berkshire DEF 14A on The Rational Walk : The Rational Walk [March 15th 2025] : Berkshire Hathaway’s 2025 Proxy Statement

@Ulti, In the Books Forum : https://thecobf.com/forum/topic/21024-buffetts-early-investments

NBC News - National Security [March 18th 2025] : Trump admin considers giving up NATO command that has been exclusively American since Eisenhower. Subtitle : The move is being discussed as part of a possible restructuring of combatant commands that would help the Defense Department cut costs. - - - o 0 o - - - The House Armed Services Committee [March 19th 2025] : Chairman Rogers, Chairman Wicker Joint Statement on Reports of Potential Combatant Command Changes What is going on behind curtains? If this is correct, why should POTUS be 'chief negotiator' in the Russian - Ukranian conflict peace efforts, where the outcome and consequences are of direct importance [, because the're next in line after Ukraine,] for fellow European NATO member countries, who by now are held on the sidelines in the peace efforts, as if they were members of the press?

Mike [ @cubsfan ], I am today as an European citizen so embarrassed about how this whole mess has been handled from Europe since it started, in the first place. A total disaster, everyone was asleep. A total sweep of all Russian troops and hardware outside Russia should have been carried out in the first few weeks after it started. And it would actually have been quite easy to do from the air.

Good news today - reads as White House like quarrels have been avoided :

Mike [ @cubsfan ] and @CGJB, POTUSs actions related to trying to stop the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine are by principle noble, and should naturally basically be considered in good faith. He is after yesterday really in trouble here, alone because he has not followed the usual playbook for such agenda. And he is one huge contradiction about it, because he really won't have anything to do with it financially, and then simultaneously he want to be in control over the process and the agenda for it. Please stop all this Biden blaiming here, the fault for it has come so far, is not Biden, - It's the fault the European countries not already directly involved in the conflict.

Thank you, Charlie [ @dealraker ], I got it! [, -before it disappeared again! ..]

@Spekulatius, That's the most impressive, scary description of POTUS's personality, motivations etc. I've ever read. I'm indifferent to what USA does with Mount Rushmore, but this wish, wet dream of POTUS just appear really odd to me, also a bit kinky. Why isen't a flamboyant gravesite financed by Deutsche Bank, or who ever he banks with today, sufficient? There is absolutely no way he's going to get the Nobel peace price, for three reasons : 1. He can't affect the election proces for winners, what's going on in a given year isen't public available, 2. He can't buy [bribe?] his way into the election process, 3. He can't 'just' take over the election proces, combined with that the Norwegian population general sentiment towards the POTUS is as expressed everywhere else in the Northern part of Europe. Norway has a group of islands up in the North Sea called Svalbard, all while staring at the Greenlandic soap opera by now. [Svalbard next?] Add to that, that Norway is actually a direct neighbour to Russia, all while the Norwegian population has been witnessing POTUSs almost pleasing Russia by cost of bullying of Ukraine. Add to that the Norwegian population also witnessing how he treats Canada [tariffs, '51st state'].

@Xerxes, Imagine perhaps living in Kyiv by now in a perhaps damaged and leaky home, perhaps even with children. [Long live our cheap district heating, combined with our app controlled [via the cloud] temperature managment Danfoss Link system, that we can adjust, even while not being home, by our phones!]

@Eng12345, For the the exact same reason that the POTUS is interested in Greenland, naturally. Q : What's the geografical distance between USA and Russia? A : 4 kms. YouTube :  GeoGlobeTales : The Distance Between the US and Russia is Less Than You Think Diomede Islands