So, Trump seems full stop trying to manufacture consent for these ideas of taking over Greenland, Canada, the Panama Canal, maybe Mexico? And now even useful idiots for Trump on the left like John Fetterman and Cenk Uygur are like "well we should entertain these discussions, i mean, people didnt want to acquire Alaska either."
....Alaska was for sale. Russia wanted to sell it, we wanted to buy it, the controversy was called "Seward's folly" because it was deemed to be a bunch of useless tundra. We didn't know about oil at that point. And, I get it, IF greenland WAS for sale, I'd be like, yeah, ok I can understand that.
Here's the problem, IT'S NOT FOR SALE! They don't wanna sell it, Trump is the only one pushing this stupid idea of buying it. The thing is, he's trying to go full manifest destiny here for some weird fascist reason (see: Hitler invading Poland, Putin invading Ukraine), and he's trying to drum up sympathy for the idea by having conversations about it and trying to encourage support for it in the American peoples' mind, and uh...yeah. They dont wanna sell. That's that, let it go.
But again, Trump is acting like he's gonna start some major imperialist war of conquest to go full manifest destiny. And it's dumb. You gotta keep in mind, Trump is a strong man. He's the dude who wants tank parades down pennsylvania avenue to stroke his ego. And he has this cave man mentality of OG WANTS LAND AND LEGACY, OG INVADE. (Og is the name of the imaginary cave man in my head whenever I talk in this voice). There's something primal with Trump's instincts here and he's trying to do this primitive strong man thing.
He doesn't even understand that north america is already an empire, it's just done in a more intelligent way.
America is forged in imperial conquest. In the 19th century, we expanded from sea to shining sea. But we didn't take over ALL the land. Why? We didn't need to. We had enough to prove our point and be the big kid on the block. We had the most fertile land, with the most economic potential, and we built a powerhouse on it. Canada was the cold stuff, Mexico was hot, rocky, and relatively inhospitable with all of the jungles, mountains, and deserts. We're friendly with both nations, and we end up forming positive relationships with them. And with that, we limited the amount of potential threats to the US mainland. Any power would have to invade through mexico or canada, and as long as we're friendly with both, it aint ever gonna happen. They aint gonna come over from the oceans. And yeah, what's russia gonna do, invade alaska? More America! We're ready for that. Then we control hawaii, which gives us functional control of the pacific ocean due to its central location. And yeah. Beyond that, we are allies with, and friendly with, and have military bases in eastern asia, Europe, even greenland, we have an airbase there. We dont control the land, but we exert our military presence, to protect ourselves and our allies, so it's good enough. Yes, we gave panama back the panama canal, but we probably have a special relationship with that too. We could retake it at any time IF WE HAD TO, not that we have to, and trump is just jumping the gun.
And then we have the monroe doctrine. We secure our security, by strongly discouraging foreign involvement in latin america. That's why the CIA is always doing coups down there. We ARE an imperial power, we just dont control it directly. We more stop our enemies from getting influence there. THis is why the cuban missile crisis was a huge deal. Communism came to cuba, they russians started putting missiles there, we didn't like that. So we tried to assassinate castro like hundreds of times and failed, and we tried to invade with the bay of pigs, which...almost got us into a nuclear war, but yeah, the soviets backed down and we came to some agreement. Now we got venezuela controlled by communists aligned with russia and we tend to look at that with lots of skepticism. We do wanna limit foreign influence in our side of the world.
But yeah. This is why what trump is doing is stupid cave man crap. We dont NEED to take over our neighbors to flex our muscles. We already have an empire, we have a whole side of the world where no foreign competitor can realistically touch us. And this guy is started to talk imperialism like its the 19th century again and raw land grabs are up for debate. He's stupid. And dangerous. This is the kind of stuff I warned you guys about when I compared trump to hitler. He's talking like Hitler. Take the sudetenland, invade Poland, invade France, try to invade Britain and Russia. And then overstep in doing so causing WWII and getting beat. But yeah. Trump is cut from the same cloth as that guy. And now he's talking about acquiring Greenland, Canada, Panama Canal, and Mexico. He's actually threatening our diplomatic credibility as an excuse to show people his you know what. That's all this is. Weird, primal 19th century...thing...measuring....
Even though we've had the biggest stick since 1945 and we've had it without any competition since 1991. We dont need to do this to prove a point. I mean, this is what his generals told him in the first term. That military parades and the like are a sign of weakness and overcompensating for something and we have nothing to prove. He fired his generals and now hes talking about wanting hitler's generals. He's a fricking moron and a psychopath.
Please, dont entertain this dude's crazy proposals. Again, this is just raw naked imperialism that threatens the sense of relative world peace that we've managed to accomplish. It's better for the American Empire, if we call it that, to operate on soft power, not hard power. Of course, soft power is an art trump will never understand because the dude governs like he has a 75 IQ. Higher concepts beyond raw force just dont come into this guy's head. For the guy who wrote "Art of the Deal", he doesnt seem to understand the art of anything, and he's really, really stupid.
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