Scandinavia and the World
Scandinavia and the World

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Free Greenland 25 7, 11:58am

'@Nisse'_Hult

I will leave it to whatever brave reader has followed this thread this far to determine whether "mostly due to America" is a sufficient paraphrase of "much of the abuse wasn't done by Denmark, but rather by the US." OP was clearly blaming America for the alcohol use in Greenland.

In regards to the rations, you are citing the rationing (or lack thereof) that the American citizen had. That is irrelevant to the point. We are not talking about American citizen, but instead supplies that were being sent to Greenland. I don't know why you even bring up "So Americans never really suffered from a rationing that effected their lives in any consequential way during the war." This thread hasn't been about American citizens, and I suspect you are being disingenuous in trying to conflate those issues.

I agree that alcohol is poison, and I don't drink myself, but I will leave assertions about the gene pool of native populations to you. I suspect you are getting into dangerous territory with that one. Rationing was introduced in 1929, and you invent some idea that it must not have been freely available before that. The most straightforward interpretation of that "rationing was introduced in 1929" is that in 1928 there was no rationing or limitations, but if you have something to cite to disprove that, I am willing to look.

What I can't believe is how you are reading that graph -- speculating about some information campaign in the 60s that you don't cite? Or discouraging tragic examples of people dying-- what happened to those examples when the use was still rising in the 70s and 80s? Where are the Americans in that? You are just trying to make everything fit the "Blame America" mold.

As for your challenge at the end: a challenge for a challenge. I can recognize when my country has failed, and I will happily list three instances below where Americans were wrong. In turn, can you name three instances where the Americans were right? Because thus far, I have heard nothing from you but vitriol and hate towards Americans, which really makes me think I am on target with my "Blame America first" comment.

1. The treatment of the Native Americans across most of US history
2. Internment of Japanese-Americans during world war 2
3. The Iraq war