President-elect, Donald Trump Eyes Canada, Greenland, and Panama for US Expansion

While I'm personally hoping to see President-elect, Donald Trump attempt to be a dictator for his first day in office, as he vowed he would like to be, his latest assertations to bring Canada, Greenland, and Panama under the control of the United States have me somewhat scratching my head?

Why Trump is targeting Panama, Greenland, Canada - thehill.com

Panama is perhaps not such a head scratcher given China's controlling interest in the Panama Canal. Trump believes the US is being overcharged for passage through such an important gateway. I don't know if that's true, but Trump thinks so, so yeah, getting control of that kind of makes sense, I guess?

Greenland is apparently a strategic national security acquisition, overlooking China and Russia. Well at least the Artic does, so Greenland is ideally placed. Apparently, with the ice up there melting, new commercial shipping routes are opening up (global warming isn't all bad news then?) and Greenland would be a great vantage point for US interests in the region. I kind of get that now, at least from an economic point of view.

Canada is the biggest head scratcher of all with some kind of tariff war going on in Trump's efforts to stop cross-border drug trafficking. I'm not exactly sure how making Canada a state of the USA will make any difference, other than it would turn a country border into a state border... so... that would technically reduce illegal drugs coming into the country? That would look great on a spreadsheet and as a graph!

Honestly though, where does that leave all those Americans who applied for Canadian citizenship so they wouldn't have to live in Trump's America? Hopefully none of them thought Greenland citizenship would be far enough out of the loop!

Personally I'm with The Daily Show in saying, Trump couldn't have mentioned some of this stuff before the election?

I doubt it would've changed anything, but those US citizens moving to Canada this year may seem a little put out to suddenly find themselves back in the US without having to move a second time... at all. Who knows? Maybe they'll appreciate not having to move back to the United States at the end of Trump's second term?

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