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An Expert in Grand Strategy Thinks Trump Is on to Something (Politico)
| Mainlining the Secret Truth of the Mahchine | 01/17/25 |
| GNOME CHOMSKY | 01/17/25 |
| Mainlining the Secret Truth of the Mahchine | 01/17/25 |
| Mainlining the Secret Truth of the Mahchine | 01/17/25 |
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Date: January 17th, 2025 8:46 PM Author: Mainlining the Secret Truth of the Mahchine (Brought to you by My Mahchine™) Do you want a future in which Canada defects to the EU, Russia rules the Arctic and China runs Latin America? That's the default outcome of non-action.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/16/logic-trump-global-ambitions-canada-europe-greenland-00198656 |
Date: January 17th, 2025 8:50 PM Author: GNOME CHOMSKY (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5665161&forum_id=2Elisa#48561812) |
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Date: January 17th, 2025 8:56 PM Author: Mainlining the Secret Truth of the Mahchine (Brought to you by My Mahchine™) In seeming reply, the august British newspaper, The Economist, calls for the EU, having just cut a landmark trade deal with South America’s Mercosur bloc, to now vigorously invite Canada into its economic union. If that deal makes sense for the European Union, why doesn’t it make similar sense for America when it comes to Canada and Greenland?
Together with Alaska (which we bought from Imperial Russia in 1867), Greenland and Canada comprise North America’s “crown jewels” when it comes to an Arctic revealed by climate change. The warming Arctic possesses almost one-third of the world’s remaining hydrocarbon (oil, natural gas) reserves, along with prodigious amounts of minerals (nickel, zinc, rare earths) critical to both national security and the energy transition.
Does anybody think Canada and Greenland won’t need serious help in standing up to Russia and China’s aggressive ambitions across that vast and strategically crucial landscape?
Or how about China’s recent emergence as primary trade partner and source of investment throughout South America? The Chinese will be more than happy to beggar our neighbors of energy, minerals, and food while climate change devastates these vulnerable economies in the years ahead, knowing full well that the vast numbers of climate migrants escaping that desperate situation will head to North America — not China. |
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Date: January 17th, 2025 8:55 PM Author: Mainlining the Secret Truth of the Mahchine (Brought to you by My Mahchine™) But let’s also get more real in our thinking and the terms we offer. Justin Trudeau is right when he says Canada will never become America’s 51st state, but what if it became America’s 51st-through-59th-states? Would that be enough political power and standing for Canadians to choose over admission into the EU? Say, 18 Senate seats and more congressional districts than California’s 52 seats?
That’s a respectful offer.
Greenland holds two seats in Denmark’s 179-member parliament. Does that strike you as more empowering than two seats in the U.S. Senate? How about a $57 billion buy-out package that makes every Greenlander an instant millionaire?
Does Trump have your undivided attention now? |