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We should add to the Cart: "The Gulf of America"...
Some Occasional Readers wonder why Trump is doing all this. Why the seemingly random stuff tossed out there into the web-osphere?
My thinking is that it's like the Chaff and Flares that fighter jets throw out to confuse enemy missiles.
The more stuff that's out there, the less the TDS folks can focus and carp about what Trump is actually doing.
Not that it's all completely nonsensical or purely defensive.
- Greenland: Apparently there were earlier attempts to buy Greenland. Denmark said it's not for sale. But everything has a price. Also there appear to be genuine security concerns: Trump has been pushing Denmark to do more to protect the shores of Greenland from greater Chinese intrusions.
- The Panama Canal: used to belong to the United States, until, inexplicably, Clown Jimmy Carter gave it away for $US1 to a corrupt Panamanian government, which now colludes with China to overcharge American Panamax vessels. And apparently the canal is in bad shape.
- Canada is another thing. Making it a 51st state of the U.S. was probably Trump trolling PM Justin Trudeau when he came to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring. In which case, done deal, as Trudeau resigned yesterday, right after that disastrous visit.
