Trumps Wunsch, Grönland und den Panamakanal zu kontrollieren: Diesmal kein Witz

Submission statement: This confirms my theory that the president-elect has a worldview of international affairs far closer to Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin than to Ronald Reagan or George W Bush. It’s an archaic worldview of raw power politics and financial mercantilism best suited to the 19th century and earlier, and completely alien to the standard foreign policy practiced since Truman.

Psychologically, he never quite left the cutthroat world of 1980s New York real estate, and has exported that environment to the overall international environment, ignoring specifics.

The last American president who seriously expanded territory was Theodore Roosevelt- by seizing Panama. When Trump speaks about making America Great Again, he doesn’t mean the 1950s or the 1980s. He means the Gilded Age until the 16th amendment in 1913.

The world will have to cope with Trump, Xi, and Putin’s my-country-first nationalism that cares little for the well-being of smaller, weaker countries.

Look, you can lament Carter handing over Panama to the locals, but you can’t just undo that at this point without making most of Latin America hate you deeply lol.

And Greenland actually makes sense to a certain extent, but the locals seem to prefer to be independent or stay with the Danes… and even if they wanted to join America, Denmark would never ever voluntarily give up, even for a price, the Greenland territory

Make Panama a Puerto Rico like territory perhaps if it is just killing him to take over lol, maybe then Panamanians might be more open to it if they get a US passport and some economic benefits for Washington (but Trump would never do that lol)