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New Audio: Binoy Shares Slickly Produced Ode to Queer Hookup Culture

New Audio: Binoy Shares Slickly Produced Ode to Queer Hookup Culture @binoymusic @planetarygroup @heygroover @romainpalmieri @DorianPerron

Binoy is a Kenyan-born, Indian-Sri Lankan singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who uses his songwriting to authentically pinpoint and express his experiences and feelings as a queer person of color. Inspired by Taylor Swift, Troye Sivan and MIKA, Binoy proudly incorporates his Indian and Sri-Lankan roots and East African upbringing into his sound and approach. The Kenyan-born artist’s…

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Goan Goat Curry Cooked With Passion by Binoy Nazareth

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गर्ल्स विल बी गर्ल्स / Girls will be Girls Shuchi Talati. 2024

School F25X+F5P ShangriLa Mehtab Singh, Road, The Mall Road, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand 248179, India See in map

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Overtourism can be seen as the apotheosis of the Irridex Index (irritation index), an unremarkable idea formulated by George Doxey in 1975 to describe the way attitudes in a local community evolve to tourism and tourists as numbers increase. It proposes four stages: euphoria, apathy, annoyance and antagonism.

Binoy Kampmark, ‘Beyond Irritation: Bali’s Tourism Scourge’, CounterCurrents

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Florine Stettheimer biographer Barbara Bloemink identified everyone in this c. 1917-1919 painting, and they're all famous enough, or at least traceable, except for the harlequin pajama dude on the right, which, good luck, and the dark-skinned person identified only as "Hindu poet Sankar." And the only known accomplishment of this poet is keeping Stettheimer's lounging nude self-portrait from getting flagged on Tumblr.

[update: in the blog post, I inferred that Hindu Poet Sankar was actually Hindu poet, sociologist, and exile Binoy Kumar Sarkar. As @idroolinmysleep points out below, NYU history professor Manu Goswami proposed the same ID in a 2012 essay on Sarkar. She cites the same identification made by (then-Met researcher) Virginia Budny in her 2003-4 paper on sculptor Gaston Lachaise, the guy in the grey suit in the lower left. So basically Sarkar's identity has been published for at least 20 years, just not known to the Stettheimer experts.]

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"Girls Will Be Girls"

A different kind of, and highly welcome, cinematic coming-of-age story that doesn't duck topics like female sexuality and agency.

Complex mother-daughter relationships wrapped up in a coming-of-age story are nothing new, but Shuchi Talati’s “Girls Will Be Girls” is a tale of sexual awakening and growing up that has a knowing streak of rebellious energy. Told from the perspectives of two different women, this film authentically captures the female experience and the complicated nuances of an evolving rapport between a…

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Dr. Kampmark's Startling Opinions. New Music By Semi Precious

“Bloodletting as form; murder as fashion.  The ongoing campaign in Gaza by Israel’s Defence Forces continues without stalling and restriction. But the burgeoning number of corpses is starting to become a challenge for the propaganda outlets: How to justify it?  Fortunately for Israel, the United States, its unqualified defender, is happy to provide cover for murder covered in the sheath of…

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Girls Will Be Girls (15): Sexual Awakening in an Indian Boarding School.

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of "Girls will be Girls". #GirlsWillBeGirls. A superbly told and sensitive coming of age story. 4.5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Girls Will Be Girls” (2024). ‘Coming of Age’ and ‘sexual awakening’ films have been done many times before. But Shuchi Talati’s new film, set in a mixed boarding school high in the mountains in the northern Indian region of Uttarakhand, just does it to perfection. Bob the Movie Man Rating: Plot Summary: 15-year-old Mira (Preeti Panigrahi) is the star pupil at…

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ബിനോയ് വിശ്വം കാനത്തിന്റെ പിന്‍ഗാമിയായേക്കും; ദേശീയ നിര്‍വാഹക സമിതിയില്‍ തീരുമാനം

തിരുവനന്തപുരം: കാനം രാജേന്ദ്രന്റെ മരണത്തെത്തുടര്‍ന്ന് സിപിഐ സംസ്ഥാന സെക്രട്ടറിയായി ബിനോയ് വിശ്വം വന്നേക്കും. ഈ മാസം 16, 17 തീയതികളില്‍ ചേരുന്ന സിപിഐ ദേശീയ നിര്‍വാഹക സമിതി യോഗത്തില്‍ ഇതുസംബന്ധിച്ച തീരുമാനം എടുത്തേക്കും. സംസ്ഥാന നേതാക്കളുടെ അഭിപ്രായം കൂടി പരിഗണിച്ചശേഷമാകും തീരുമാനം. നിലവില്‍ രാജ്യസഭാംഗമായ ബിനോയ് വിശ്വത്തിന്റെ എംപി കാലാവധി ആറുമാസത്തിനകം പൂര്‍ത്തിയാകും. കാനം അവധി അപേക്ഷ…

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the line up :] everyone’s OC was so fun to draw!

Kimber - @kkolg

SD-A / Amy-C - @avmagichearts [+ twitter]

Binoy - @Binoychu [twitter]

SD-D - @DoggyPrime [twitter]

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what are your top five books? (love your writing by the way!!)

ANON THANK YOU!!! and thank you x2 for this question i was actually hoping id get asked this when i reblogged the post HAHEJEJEJWJEJEJ

im gonna paste the reviews i wrote for them (if i have them logged)

these are my top 5 books for 2024!

1. a thousand splendid suns - khaled hosseini (reread)

i think, above all, this is a love story in the broadest way possible. it is about love interwoven with fear, in an environment where survival is not guaranteed -- or, rather, is not guaranteed to be easy. in the context of the afghan war hosseini brings together two women under the same roof in a co-wifeship, and how, despite all the differences between them, love blossoms from their shared sisterhood and desire to protect one another. allyship against their abusive husband turns into a friendship turns into what becomes a mother-daughter relationship, a sharp, tearjerking contrast from the harsh conditional tolerance the rest of the world treat these women. a quote from the beginning of the book encapsulates this story perfectly: a man's heart is not like a mother's womb. it will not stretch to accommodate for you. it will not bleed. but despite not being of each other's wombs, mariam and laila did exactly this for one another, stretched and bled until, at least through one of them, they could experience a birth into a better life.

2. lolita - vladimir nabokov (reread)

lolita is not a love story. i have said this every time i have read the book, but in my third pass, as a 20 year old instead of a 14 or 17 year old, all the flowery prose, the carefully hidden details feel like they've been peeled off like a fruit skin and left the bare rinds of what this story is. humbert humbert kidnapped a 12 year old girl, drove her around the states, and raped her for a year. not to mention the abuse that continued after that.

this book deserves five stars because nabokov is clearly a master in creating an unreliable narrator. there were times i questioned whether anything we knew about humbert was real at all -- the small suggestions that he has embellished certain details, this insistence of creating 'art' and taking liberties for that purpose. you could argue that humbert is delusional, but i actually don't think he is. i think he knows exactly what he is and what he did but is psychopathically aware of creating a new version of himself and his story to make a good story for the 'jury'. because we do see his true colours, very often, in fact, colours that betray his claims that he loves lo, that he believes she's the one who can control him -- for example, the evaluation of Charlotte haze in his ability to 'twist her wrist' as he did with valeria, his almost disgust at some of the regular 12-year-old things lo was into (magazines, etc), and, most importantly, the fact he states the murder of quilty was actually the intended climax of his memoir all along, the whole purpose of his work. that's not to mention his obsession with 'capturing' lo -- in his journal entries, in the desire to take photos of her while she played tennis, in the very act of calling her 'lolita'.

i think this book is a disgusting, monstrous work of art. always enthralled by nabokov's mastery everytime i read this

3. rumi: selected poems

(this review was a load of nonsense so this is the redacted version)

like soap washing with our dirt, rumi cleans us, leaves us empty, draws our awareness back into the infinite.

4. gora - rabindranath tagore

after reading this i had to sit in silence for a while to just. process. because WOW. out of all of tagore's translated novels, this may have been my favourite -- the critical commentary on identity that home and the world could have been if it were longer! when binoy grows close to a brahmo family, conflict arises between him and his best friend gora -- a fierce adherant to hindu principles, especially the separation of caste. what follows are a series of events that brings into question the foundation of each character's religious principles -- what is impurity? what does it mean? how much of a person's worldly community should a person be expected to sacrifice for their religion? and how much of these principles are intrinsic, inherent in the hearts of all believers, and how much is learned, a garment clutched onto by believers for a sense of identity? to what extent can this garment be actually beneficial -- and to what extent harmful, weaponised to separate oneself from others and monochromise a world filled with different colours? filled with as many perspectives as there are characters, tagore observes the nature of religion, with all its guidance and restraints, and how spirituality can turn into tyranny in times where one's identity is threatened. a work extremely relevant to the british raj and the divisions thus created within hindustani society!

5. a little life - hanya yanagihara

i hestitated to pick this up because i've definitely heard some interesting opinions about it, to say the least. i've heard people say it's one of those books that are sad for no reason, that pile on the trauma just for the shock value. and, while on one hand, i can see where opinions like this come from, i can't disagree more. the sadness is there for a purpose. maybe not in a way that the characters can see, but in the way that we can see -- the purpose of showing us that no matter how much meaningless sadness, the unfairness of pain we have in our lives, the people who love us will always try to fight for us to stay alive, and, at the same time, how this fight may, at the end of the day, be for nothing, and yet it doesn't stop us from fighting. yanagihara explores friendship, love, and devotion, the decision to keep loving someone, the decision to make someone 'less sick' if they can't make them get better. heartbreaking in the futility of efforts, in the decades-lasting scars from experiences jude had no control over, in the complications in all his relationships, the people who want him to stay, and the trauma in him that makes it so hard to stay, we see that loving people isn't necessarily about how easy it is to be with them, but about how much we are willing to try.

ask me my top 5 anything

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Counter-Exposing Banjo/Tiredite/Lunar Moonyu/Lunar Cheese - Part 2

If you want the whole backstory- https://www.tumblr.com/htcsense5/732278019975151616/counter-exposing-banjotireditelunar-moonyulunar?source=share

Hey guys.

NKYT here.

As you guys know in October, we have exposed banjo for her past self for trying to expose arsik and since our expose did nothing to her, i deciced to speak on my side of my interactions with her that i had back in July 2021 - January 2022 with banjo before i disappeared because of her (we will get to that later on). So i guess let's start with the story..

After the March-June war was declared, i gave banjo a second chance, because i thought she truly changed and won't do those mistakes again but unfortunately, we were all wrong….

In the end of July 2021, things started to get worse because i saw David saying "binoi sucks" and i instantely sended that to my now ex-friend banjo and she wanted me to ask him "is that a joke?". And from there on, people, including my friends thought i was choosing her side, which would come to appearant when she stole me from my friends in August 2021 with some weird ass love message. And everything after that my career was gonna go downhill.

In September 2021, she began going "me mad" over David, doing his series of "Live streams for phones" when i was featured. She started accusing me of her being disappointed of David and then me like YOU SAID YOU WERE GONNA IGNORE VCS WHAT IS THIS???

Then things will get worse when in October 2021, banjo started using "gay jokes" on David for vcing with me which i wasnt ok with her making those jokes to both of us, but she kept going.

In November 2021, it got even worse when she heavily continued calling david gay and thinking of drawing a ship between me and david because we were just only vcing. She was also saying things like "imaging saying gay things to him" and shockingly "imma burn david for being gay" showing homophobia, which is pretty ironic since now in 2023 she became pansexual.

She has already stolen me from my friends but things will get even worse in December 2021, specifically on December 31st 2021 8:28 PM. Hours prior to that, banjo started to get me into Touhou characters by guessing them in what we call her stupid edition server, also known as "The Mayakou Server" thing. While i was already doing the things banjo told me to do, my friends started posting some memes in that bot guessing channel and then something in my brain was like they were trolling me so i sent a meme that had a guy reading a book said "how to deal with idiots" or something like that i dont remember. And then the worst happened. Arsik blocked me shortly after that and there was exchanges between me and my friends.

It makes me sad to know that banjo made me hate my own friends, my own community, the people that made me successful, and i blew it all out because of that one whore. People after that started to hate me for choosing banjo and for insulting one of my best friends over some petty drama. I was already cancelled because of the drama i had with my friends thanks to banjo and in the result that made me quit all social media on January 15th 2022.

When i was out of Discord by that time, i was on still on David's streams and then banjo saw that and started harassing David for being "gay" because he made me alive (umm what?) and she tried to revealed his full name.

11 months later, i would finally apologise for all of the wrong things that i've done in the community and thankfully everyone gave me another chance. 2 days after i returned to Discord (26th of December 2022), Banjo would try to friend me on my new account, but i've ignored it, because if i have accepted her again, everything would have gone downhill just like in December 2021.

Anyways we wouldn’t get any updates from her until February 11th when a weird account by the name of "私について読んでください#4082" sent me a friend request that had a pastebin link which at first didn’t work. But after it got edited to work, it was clear that banjo was again trying to apologise to us and get us back, but we declined it.

Then on April 2nd, Banjo would try to friend me again on her main account, this time with her about me page being "nick i only came to talk to you" which i was suspicious what was she going to talk about so this time i accepted it to see what she wanted to say and a day later, i got a response by her and again SHE WANTED TO APOLOGISE. sigh. So i told her that "it’s impossible to move on to another chapter of your life, if you keep re-reading the last one" and blocked her after that.

Things would finally go back to normal after she stopped trying to get us back, but unfortunately, that wasn’t the end. On June 9th 2023, Banjo again tried to get me to respond on Instagram by her saying that she can’t forget me and that when she sees a bulgarian person, it reminds her of me for some reason (like why?). But anyways, i didn’t bother responding to her so i ghosted her.

But then on July 3rd, i wanted to talk to Banjo for the last time, because she was mentioning our names and i wanted to put an end to this, by saying that she needs to keep our names out of her mouth.

She was like "ok, i will move on for real" on my dms, but in reality, the next day (4th of July), she says that we are ignorant like wtf and wanted to be racist by saying that she wants to be a bulgarianphobe and supporting Macedonia. She was saying such nasty things even after i told her to stop, but nothing help, same thing on August 20th (our next confrontation, this time in a gc), nothing helped.

Like imagine hating a WHOLE country only because your crush rejected you like wtaf💀.

And here we are on August 20th 2023. A day prior to that, she tried to befriend our friend and owner of Project Mobile "Gunbo" who actually accepted her friend request which prompted us to tell him to add us to a group with her so we could tell her to just leave us alone for the last time, but while she was like "I will try i will try" she once again was mentioning her drama with us and referred to us as "the nkits" so yeah, nothing helped.

And then here comes October 22nd, 2023 when a guy attacked servers Arsik was in with an exposé of him, in it banjo’s tried to expose our good friend Arsik for him acting sexually to banjo when in reality arsik was 11 and banjo was 13, and she even thought that arsik was 10. And also she purposely hid her name so that people wouldn’t hate her for erping with a 10 year old. So we fought back with our expose which people called "baby drama". And this is where i lost it. HOW CAN YOU CALL ALL OF THIS TRAUMA THAT WE HAD TO SUFFER BABY DRAMA??

Anyways before i go off more, i just want to say that this drama isnt baby drama. This is serious shit that people need into, by taking a look at our exposés against banjo and realise that this is all serious and we aren’t joking around, but sadly banjo didn’t get cancelled over our exposé and people were still supporting her, despite the expose that arsik made being already public, but no one gave a damn sadly. But here i am shining the light on the fact that banjo is an full-on creep who sexualises minors and hypnotises her friends into being on her side.

And now comes December 16th 2023. The day we joined the Java-oriented server "Kahvibreak". We wanted to join with my friend because we were interested in java preservation too, but we knew that banjo was there thought we joined nonetheless since it’s a good server. And hours later, banjo saw that we were in the server and she went "baiii my enemies are here" which made the people in kahvibreak become suspicious that we came to harass her, when in reality, we didn’t want to harass anyone. Soon after she left, she changed her Discord name to "JUST DESTROY ME.." to now "A....". (update: she has returned. no surprise)

So yeah this is the whole story of my own point of view of what is like to be friends with a creep and a nsfw artist. And to everyone who is reading this. It's best to avoid any interactions with Banjo because she is a manipulator and a creep that has been known by our community, but despite that she wanted to return after we told her to move on, but as of now she’s trying to join other corners of our community, never missing the opportunity to say something about us and how we cancelled her and whatnot. It's crazy that people like banjo exist and makes me furious that people call our drama childish. Like can you just take a quick second to see that this is very real and serious? Banjo traumatised us with her explicit art and it’s not a joke. Anyways, i hope we can spread this message across our community and her community so people could very well know her backstory and why they should not be friends with banjo.

Banjo is an attention seeker who would do anything to bring light to her dying career, including in some rather shady ways. She’s using her past for attention and it’s rather pathetic.

Anyways, im working on a folder called "Banjo's Hellhole" which includes all of her moments and once the project gets finished, i will provide a Google Drive link for it so you can guys get a better look at her. But for now, that's all that i have to say about her.

Thank you all for reading this and Fuck You Banjo!😉

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hey. im Ra. well, now im binoy perumbral and i live in west los angeles. culver city to be exact. born in hollywood.

just want to say, Aten was at some point designated Pharoah, and Supreme God of the Universe. the notion that some cat, claiming to be a god, somehow acquiring a female human body, thru some disgusting body modification, is Aten's wife, is because alot of egyptian people are the most vile, ruthless human beings on earth.

Aten is white. He's also known as lil peep. I built a whole city for that white boy. Akhetaten. It devoted 3 years of all of egypts resources and manpower, working overtime, to build that city.

most of the egyptian gods, who are actually egyptian, are not gods, are brown, and there are no such things as brown gods.

why does egyptian history record that Aten's wife is a cat headed girl? umm...because egypt fell apart, and people went crazy, and they try to arrange bad marriages, even though they dont even know this kid, they just dont like him, try to ruin him, destroy his reputation... every record you find on the internet about egyptian history is often modified with complete lies. here is a solar deity list of egypt. these were thee gods of egypt. for 10,000 years. all the other names, i dont know who these people are. and this list i found? theres abou 59% that shouldnt be here. it was just 4. and Aten is in that 4. but he was moved to the future. so noone remembers him. and the other 2 were complete frauds. for reasons i cant get into, they stayed on the list. powered by Apocalypse thru him gifting them divine powers.

Amun, creator deity sometimes identified as a Sun god (not a god, an egyptian military experiment)

Aten, god of the Sun, the visible disc of the Sun (thee God)

Atum, the "finisher of the world" who represents the Sun as it sets (very evil guy, not a God)

Bastet, cat goddess associated with the Sun (its a fucking cat! not a God)

Hathor, mother of Horus and Ra and goddess of the Sun (couldnt turn on a stove, let alone create sunlight, not a God, tolerated, but no more) on top of this, apparently committed abominable acts

Ra (some firecracker, nothing compared to Aten, at best some divine blood) secretly a good looking white guy

Horus (dont know this person, get panic attacks every time I hear hear or see his name)

Khepri, the scarab god, rolling the Sun across the sky (Khepri, literally a scarab, obviously not a sun god, hope he still serves Aten)

i feel i know you. obviously you dont know me. but, you dont like Hathor, i can tell by what you wrote. what did she do to you?

God, enlighten me or eliminate me

Everything else aside, I understand why this is called the "reading comprehension issues" website but on the post I talked about Hathor I compared her to my favorite character bc I loved the parallels I found, and even if you didn't know Mikaela is my favorite character, I literally never wrote anything bad about Hathor?? Why on Earth would you think I don't like her

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Groenlandia, una obsesión estadounidense

Por Binoy Kampmark

Fuentes: El Salto [Foto: Nuuk, capital de Groenlandia (Oliver Schauf)]

La historia nos muestra cómo los imperios adquieren territorios de diferentes maneras. Las dinastías amplían sus posesiones a través del matrimonio, como célebremente hicieron los Habsburgo. Los territorios se toman por la vía de las armas o se roban mediante tratados engañosos y maniobras oscuras. También pueden comprarse.

Los Estados Unidos ampliaron buena parte de sus territorios comprándolos y haciéndose, de ese modo, con un imperio. La adquisición de Louisiana de 1803 por unos meros 15 millones de dólares fue atrevida, oportunista y extra-legal. También fue iniciada por un presidente estadounidense que había insistido románticamente en que la flamante república se confinase a las labores agrícolas en un modelo de pequeños propietarios de tierras. Pero Thomas Jefferson podía ser astutamente endiablado, y Francia, entonces bajo el firme dominio de Napoleón Bonaparte, le preocupaba: “Solo hay un único lugar en el globo cuyo poseedor es nuestro enemigo natural y habitual, y ése es Nueva Orleans”.

Bonaparte, cuyos intereses se centraban más en Europa, estaba abierto a ceder el territorio por una modesta cantidad. Los nativos, por supuesto, no fueron consultados. Jefferson, que había defendido antes la necesidad de respetar la Constitución con piadosa meticulosidad, la ignoró en lo tocante a comprar territorio, lo que no se permitía explícitamente en el documento. De este modo se mostraron los primeros signos de una presidencia imperial.

En 1868, el ávido ojo del Gobierno estadounidense mostró que la conquista y el control del continente no se limitaba en exclusiva a la expansión hacia el Oeste que eventualmente vería, en la altiva observación de Frederick Jackson Turner, su cierre. Los anhelos de expansión apuntaban a Islandia y Groenlandia como posibles opciones orientales.

Una publicación del año 1868 del Departamento de Estado editada por Benjamin Mills Pierce contiene algo más que un interés pasajero en los recursos de Islandia y Groenlandia, mencionando el tratado por el cual Dinamarca había de ceder el control de las islas de Saint Thomas y Saint John, en el Caribe, a los Estados Unidos. El informe de 1868 animaba a adquirir Groenlandia por dos razones importantes: las oportunidades comerciales que prometía la explotación de la abundancia natural de “ballenas, morsas, focas y tiburones, bacalaos, salmones, truchas y arenques” y la congruencia política de obtener un territorio flanqueado “por la América británica en el Ártico y el Pacífico”. Groenlandia, así, “podía convertirse en parte de la Unión” y disminuir la influencia británica en la región.

El tratado con Dinamarca relativo a las Indias occidentales danesas fue un recordatorio de que las cosas no iban a ser fáciles. La adquisición de lo que se convertiría andando el tiempo en las Islas Vírgenes de los Estados Unidos fue la idea original del secretario de Estado William Henry Seward, una maniobra que tuvo el beneplácito del Departamento de Estado de EE UU. El destino del tratado fue accidentado: el rechazo inicial del Senado estadounidense, dirigido sobre todo al apoyo de Seward al presidente Andrew Jackson durante su procedimiento de impeachment, fue seguido por el rechazo de Dinamarca en 1902. También hubo desconfianza sobre si se realizaría un plebiscito para los habitantes locales, teniendo en cuenta el temor de Dinamarca hacia lo que podría deparar a los habitantes negros el vivir bajo el dominio de los EE UU, a la que predecía su fama de escasa generosidad hacia las razas de color.

Con la Primera Guerra Mundial finalmente llegó la transferencia formal de las Indias occidentales danesas el 31 de marzo de 1917 junto con 25 millones de dólares en monedas de oro, un resultado al que se llegó, en parte, gracias a las tácticas de matonismo del secretario de Estado estadounidense Robert Lansing. El secretario de Estado apenas disimulaba que una de las intenciones de ocupar las islas era prevenir que cayesen en manos alemanas.

El interés en adquirir Groenlandia se desarrolló en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Una vez más, las preocupaciones sobre Alemania estaban en primer plano, teniendo en cuenta su ocupación sin incidentes de Dinamarca en 1940. Los Estados Unidos construyeron entonces la base aérea de Thule en 1943. La administración Truman, al término de la guerra, fracasó a la hora de tentar a los daneses con un precio de compra de 100 millones de dólares, aunque la base siguió funcionando bajo el control estadounidense y la bendición del reino.

Durante el primer mandato de Donald Trump resurgió la obsesión por comprar Groenlandia como un sarpullido, y la adquisición de Groenlandia se comparó a “un contrato de compraventa de una gran propiedad”. Dinamarca, sugirió Trump, cargaba con Groenlandia “con pérdidas, y estratégicamente le iría bien a los Estados Unidos”. De acuerdo con la mayoría de relatos, la operación tenía menos que ver con la realpolitik que con el negocio inmobiliario. Según la narración de los hechos de Peter Baker y Susan Glasser del primer mandato de Trump, Dinamarca recibiría el ignorado territorio de Puerto Rico a cambio. También sugieren que esta atrevida propuesta vino del viejo amigo del presidente Ronald Lauder, heredero del imperio de la cosmética Estée Lauder. Trump, como es típico en él, insiste en que fue su propia idea.

Como era de esperar, Trump encontró a la primera ministra danesa, Mette Frederiksen, poco impresionada, renuente y “desagradable”. Por su parte, la primera ministra danesa afirmó que “la época en la que se compraban y vendían otros países y poblaciones ya ha pasado. Dejémoslo ahí”.

El retorno inminente de Trump a la Casa Blanca ha revivido viejas idiosincrasias. Durante el período de vacaciones de diciembre de 2024, tuvo raptos de fantasías jeffersonianas y prometió recuperar el Canal de Panamá, que considera que está siendo operado ilegalmente, aunque con afecto, por “los maravillosos soldados de China”, además de convertir a Canadá en el estado número 51 con el exjugador de hockey profesional Wayne Gretzky instalado como gobernador, y comprar Groenlandia.

La elección del presidente electo para el cargo de embajador estadounidense en Dinamarca aparentemente se basa en el cortejo a Copenhague mientras Trump declara la propiedad del territorio por parte de Washington como “una absoluta necesidad”. La opinión del primer ministro de Groenlandia, Múte Egede, sugiere que un proyecto de estas características tiene pocos visos de triunfar: “Groenlandia es nuestra. No estamos a la venta y nunca lo estaremos”. Ser inequívoco, en política, es un peligro.

En abril del año pasado, la base aérea Thule cambió su nombre a base espacial Pituffik, en una publicitada muestra de sensibilidad cultural. El Departamento de Defensa aseguró que de este modo se reconocía mejor “el legado cultural groenlandés” y se reflejaba de manera más apropiada “su papel en las fuerzas espaciales estadounidenses”. El legado cultural groenlandés juega un papel más bien escaso en la visión imperial de la base, de la que las fuerzas espaciales estadounidenses insisten que “permite la superioridad espacial” con sus sistemas de advertencia de misiles, sus misiles de defensa y sus misiones de reconocimiento y vigilancia aeroespacial.

Así las cosas, la posesión de Groenlandia, en un sentido oficial, apenas importa, y la segunda administración Trump actuaría sabiamente dejando simplemente a los daneses ocuparse de los glaciares y sus problemas. Washington ya tiene lo que necesita, y, en verdad, más de lo que necesita.

Publicado originalmente en Counterpunch. Traducción: Àngel Ferrero.

Fuente: https://www.elsaltodiario.com/estados-unidos/groenlandia-obsesion-estadounidense

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