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Should U.S. buy, seize, conquer, occupy or annex Greenland, Panama, Canada, Mexico or other nation?
He's got it all backwards. First, you try to steamroll China, the biggest bully on the block. Then the rest are yours for the taking.
Imperial America! Woo-hoo!
We can't manage our own health-care system or our gun problems, but our not-so-grand leader wants to take over other lands. His pal Putin gave him some great ideas.
Panama might want to sell the canal to the U.S. to hand somebody else the problem. The zone is drying out and the system has lost enough water that the number of transits is down by something like 35% (from an average of 38 a day to 24).
And Canada: they aren't doing anything about the illegal border-crossing beavers invading our rivers.
My bent mind sees the prospect of annexing Greenland and Canada as a very clever way of locking the exit doors from the now-intolerable US of A. Moving to a sovereign Canada or a Danish-controlled Greenland or even to a Central American paradise, places to which right-thinking Americans might turn in a time of despair, could be thwarted because those safe havens will be nothing but extensions of the US. I don’t want to move to Moosinee any more than you do, but if Trumpists were running the place I’d run in another direction. Come to think of it, Panama City, for all its sweltering charms, would be intolerable if Newt Gingrich were the Trump-appointed Governor. Yikes! There’s no place go! Greenland? Gimme a break!
Viable 3rd Party? Nope. The Dems and Reps have made sure to lock things up tight, between them. Even though the Reps have ceased to be a Party. They have morphed into a subversive organization. Been that way since Ronny Ray-guns and Gingrich the Newt.
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Imperial America! Woo-hoo!
We can't manage our own health-care system or our gun problems, but our not-so-grand leader wants to take over other lands. His pal Putin gave him some great ideas.
Canada for sure - it keeps sending those Alberta Clippers to the Midwest in Winter. This has gone on long enough.
And Canada: they aren't doing anything about the illegal border-crossing beavers invading our rivers.
Fair enough- we can pay for a canal of questionable value with inflated US currency of questionable value.
Panama: Trump hotel standoff ends as president surrenders physical control
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/05/trump-panama-hotel-standoff-loses-physical-control
But no, this may well just be payback.