Posted on 12/24/2024 10:34:39 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Over the past two days, President-elect Donald J. Trump has made clear that he has designs for American territorial expansion, declaring that the United States has both security concerns and commercial interests that can best be addressed by bringing the Panama Canal and Greenland under American control or outright ownership.
Mr. Trump’s tone has had none of the trolling jocularity that surrounded his repeated suggestions in recent weeks that Canada should become America’s “51st state,” including his social media references to the country’s beleaguered prime minister as “Governor Justin Trudeau.”
Instead, while naming a new ambassador to Denmark — which controls Greenland’s foreign and defense affairs — Mr. Trump made clear on Sunday that his first-term offer to buy the landmass could, in the coming term, become a deal the Danes cannot refuse.
He appears to covet Greenland both for its strategic location at a time when the melting of Arctic ice is opening new commercial and naval competition and for its reserves of rare earth minerals needed for advanced technology.
“For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media, “the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.”
On Saturday evening, he had accused Panama of price-gouging American ships traversing the canal, and suggested that unless that changed, he would abandon the Jimmy Carter-era treaty that returned all control of the canal zone to Panama.
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Best President evah!
Greenland has one of our most critical forward defense bases and almost nothing else. Russian military is expanding in the Arctic region to prepare for both forward missile deployments and interdiction of North Atlantic (USA/Europe) military supply and commerce.
Denmark (the current landlord for Greenland) is not equipped to deal with these global-level concerns. (And could use some money to help defray its local defense and governmental needs back there in Europe.)
The Communist Chinese military is reportedly all ready for the Panama Canal since a Communist Chinese government front organization took operational management.
These are two critical defense (and commerce) assets and they’re at risk in event of any further troubles. Placing them with USA (as for Panama, again) is, imho, very important now. It could prevent some serious fighting if the Russians and CommChinese see that they’d have to go up against USA instead of Panama or Denmark. Effective deterence is one of the the best kinds of defense since nobody gets hurt.
The New York Times is.
Trump's bold statement was just a wake up call...and looks like it worked.
Is it that the ice is melting, or the fact that Russia has bigger ice breakers now that are keeping their shipping lanes open?
The Winning will not stop!!!
Trump is throwing everything at once at them so the Left will be...left behind.
Further evidence of the abject political stupidity of Mark Cuban, and the Left in general, who characterizes Trump as being “lazy” and not capable of “putting in the work”.
And an unfunny tasteless joke at that.
NyT carrying water for its masters in China, I see.
💯.
As usual.
That chance to be the best ever might not have existed with President Ronald Reagan.
Some forget how catastrophic circumstances were here.
The media and the dems were also just accepting that communism was the new, best thing.
The Great One took down an entire Forced Union of the Soviets.
2 great men needed at definitely the right time.
Merry Christmas!
When he says we're going to reclaim the Panama Canal and annex Greenland, take it seriously. Trump is not to be underestimated.
And New York Times ... worst newspaper ever!
Why should the US aggravate Denmark and Greenland simply to avoid operating a mine in Wyoming?
I wonder what the people who live in Greenland have to say about it.
The Ukrainians have shown the vulnerability of warships.
A few dozen Houthis have shown the uselessness of warships.
Quite.
CHECK!
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