Posted on 12/26/2024 9:08:47 AM PST by SJackson
What’s behind Trump’s expansionist rhetoric?
First, President-elect Donald Trump tweaked Canada’s far-left Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about becoming governor of the 51st state of the United States of America. Then he said that the Panama Canal should once again come under American control. Make that the 52nd state. And now, are you ready for a 53rd state? On Sunday, Trump renewed a call he made during his first term: that the United States should buy Greenland from Denmark. Could the man possibly be serious?
Maybe not. The left’s propaganda arm, also known as the mainstream media, loves to portray Trump and his supporters as angry, bitter, ignorant people lashing out against the people who know better what’s good for them. Trump has never gotten credit for his sense of humor, despite the fact that he is easily the funniest man to occupy the White House since Ronald Reagan, and may even surpass the Gipper.
Much of Trump’s humor goes entirely unnoticed. Few have taken any note of the fact that his new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, recalls the Doge Internet meme that Elon Musk briefly made Twitter’s logo in 2023. And Trump’s teasing of “Governor” Trudeau went so far over the head of MSNBC that the far-left garbage machine actually put out an article ascribing the gibe to Trump’s “confusion.”
On the other hand, there was nothing funny about Trump’s statement that the U.S. should resume control of the Panama Canal. “Has anyone ever heard of the Panama Canal?” Trump asked the crowd at AmericaFest. “Because we’re being ripped off at the Panama Canal like we’re being ripped off everywhere else.”
Trump went on to explain that the Panama Canal “was given to Panama and to the people of Panama,” “but it has provisions, you gotta treat us fairly and they haven’t treated us fairly. If the principles, both moral and legal, of this magnanimous gesture of giving are not followed, then we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of America in full, quickly, and without question.”
Trump wasn’t being funny about Greenland, either. “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World,” he wrote Sunday, “the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.” This got the same reception that it got during Trump’s first term. Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede said haughtily on Monday that “Greenland belongs to the people of Greenland. We are not for sale and we will not be for sale.” He doesn’t seem to have mentioned that Greenland is not an independent state but is Danish territory.
Even in floating the idea, however, along with his statements about the Panama Canal, Trump has become the most forthrightly expansionist president since William McKinley. Is this all about personal vainglory, as the left contends, or is there more substance to it? The answer is clear: Trump is once again being true to his America-First convictions.
His question to Trudeau was pointed, and remains unanswered: “So your country can’t survive unless it’s ripping off the U.S. to the tune of $100 billion?” Trump asked Trudeau this question when the Canadian prime minister complained that the tariff Trump threatened to levy if Canada continued to do nothing to control its long border with the U.S. would destroy Canada. That’s where the Canada-as-the-51st-state gibe originated; it’s really all about Trump protecting American interests.
With the canal, it’s the same situation. Trump contends that we’re not being treated fairly. Politico reported that he “also said he would not let the canal fall into the ‘wrong hands,’ warning of potential Chinese influence in Panama.” Regarding Greenland, it’s once again the same story. Harvard International Review noted in an Aug. 2024 article that “while Greenland remains closely linked to Scandinavia as an autonomous region of Denmark, global powers such as the United States, China, and Russia are racing to extend military and economic influence in the region as it becomes more habitable.”
There’s the bottom line: if the United States doesn’t control the Panama Canal and Greenland, China or Russia likely will, and the consequences could be severe both for the American economy and for national security. So while the leftist intelligentsia laughs at Trump’s revival of the Manifest Destiny imperative, there is, as is so often the case, a method to his madness. Trump is playing the great power game at a time when the left wants nothing more than for America to stand down and let China be the world’s great power. It’s yet another reason why leftists hate him so passionately.
We would still be four short of 0bummah’s 57!
BTTT
Great place to populate with the illegal immigrant deportation!
Give them a choice, Greenland or back to where they came from!
Working the way up. Got a long way to go though.
Australia... New Zealand...
My guess, and it’s just my guess, is that the Canada purchase is a troll, the Panama retaking is part of a negotiation, and he really wants to purchase Greenland.
In honor of Curley he could change the capital from Nuuk to Nuuk Nuuk Nuuk, but I digress.
How much of this requires military action? Not much.
What’s behind Trump’s expansionist rhetoric? the fact that these rats have been allowing china to buy American farm land and watching china in our back yard from jimmy carter on
Greenland is a territory.
60K people. Fewer count of Family Units
Offer each family $2-5 Million, special non voting US Citizenship, no personal income taxes for life.
Let them Vote to join the US.
Or stay with Denmark?
LMFAO!
How about we secure our borders first?
I laughed my ass off when I saw that the other day! Just brilliant!
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama
One of the longer palindromes (reads same forward and backwards)
Well, we CAN walk and chew gum at the same time
Good one....lol
New states, heck no. Greenland’s population is less than 1/10 of the least populous current state, less than the territories of Guam, US Virgin Islands, Northern Marianas, and about that of American Samoa. And way less than Puerto Rico. New territories on the other hand…
The Canada trolling is is political pressure to get them to control their border. Which is needed almost as badly as the Mexican border. The other two issues are covered below.
China and Russia have expanded their activities in Greenland, focusing on areas ranging from the Northern Sea Route to missile detection installations and the revitalization of Cold War-era military bases. These efforts reflect a renewed push to bolster political and commercial influence in the region.
China is now controlling the cannel and charging America horrendous fees and threatens to block western countries shipping traffic.
Obummah was thinking of his favorite 57 “states,” that being the number of nations and terrorist murder gangs that are members of the international Islamic association.
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