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The founding member of the “PayPal mafia” is the person chosen by Donald Trump to help America Captures Greenland. Ken Howery, who previously served as the chief financial officer of the online payments program, is also known for his long-standing ties to two other key members of the aforementioned “mafia”: tech billionaires Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.
Howery, who previously served as the US ambassador to Sweden between 2019 and 2021 in the first Trump administration, has been chosen as Trump’s new ambassador to Denmark. Trump declared it He wants to buy Greenland Although from Denmark, the authorities of the Scandinavian country have repeatedly said the area is not for sale. Not to be deterred, Trump insisted and even said he would make it happen does not exclude the use of military force to seal the deal.
Howery still needs to be confirmed by the Senate for the role. If he criticizes, he will be tasked with trying to maneuver an agreement they considered “crazy”. Although Trump is not particularly clear about this why he wants Greenland, which is generally agreed to be his territory has important geostrategic importance. During the Cold War, the United States specifically attempted to establish a network of nuclear missile launch sites in Greenland for use as a “second strike” against the Soviet Union. These efforts were a closely guarded secret, and the United States allegedly never did so He informed the Danish government he did that.
Howery’s potential involvement in a new key administration role is further evidence of the political rise of the PayPal mob under the new Trump administration. Like many of the PayPal staff, Howery and Thiel were college classmates at Stanford. Howery He wrote for The Stanford ReviewTogether, Thiel’s student newspaper and the two would go on to form Founders Fund, a powerful venture capital firm that backed some of the most successful tech companies in Silicon Valley, including Facebook, SpaceX and others.
As for US State Department officials, Howery enjoys an unusually colorful public life. Indeed, about half the times in the Times article, reporters refer to his ability to “party.” Howery is known for his extravagant social outings, including a 2022 Halloween party at a castle in Transylvania that featured Thiel and other billionaires. A earlier times The 2022 story also notes that Howery “threw himself a birthday party at a stunning 19th-century castle on the outskirts of Stockholm” in November 2020.
During the pandemic, Musk spent a lot of time at the Howery mansion in Houston, and in 2021 it is called hosting a party where guests are forced to sign confidentiality agreements. At that party, Joe Rogan (who He put Trump on the platform Hosted Musk during the election repeatedly on his podcast), Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, “techno-optimist” doofus Jamie Wheal, and other well-known VIPs, many with ties to the wider techno-libertarian network that revolves around Thiel.
We previously reported The Network State movement is a strange political movement that wants to establish itself private, cryptocurrency-powered cities—also expressed interest in buying Greenland and using it to test techno-colonization efforts. Dryden Brown, CEO of the Network State-affiliated Praxis project, even claimed that acquiring Greenland was part of his movement’s larger “plan”. The Network State movement received significant financial support from Thiel, who financially supported Trump in his first presidential election in 2016.
