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Donald Trump has sought to expand everything he controls.
By Maggie Haberman and Jess Bidgood
President-elect Donald Trump is still a week away from taking office, but his intention is to force Canada to join the United States and obtain Greenland and the Panama Canal, refusing at one point to rule out the use of military force in those two. specific cases – made a surreal prologue to his current administration. It’s an obsession that has infuriated world leaders and forced congressional Republicans to insist that the new president has no plans to cause a typhoon in the ArcticArray.
“The United States is not going to invade any other country,” Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla. , said on “Meet the Press. ” Trump, Lankford insisted, was simply making “bold” statements intended to bring “everyone to the table. “
Whether the words are a negotiating tactic or something more, the president-elect’s expressed desire to expand the nation’s footprint reflects an urge that has animated much of his career in the public eye: to make whatever he controls as big as possible.
In this sense, Trump’s comments about taking Greenland and Canada through “economic force” can be seen less as the expression of a foreign policy objective than as the extension of a philosophy that dates back to his determined efforts to expand your power. corporations through a series of acquisitions in the 1980s.
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The prime minister of Greenland says the territory wants to work more closely with the United States on certain issues, but Greenlanders, like Panamanians, have expressed little interest in actually handing their territory over to Americans.
As a businessman, however, Trump paid little attention to others who stood in the way of his desired expansions, even if they rarely figured out tactics to stop him.
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