This exciting week, the man who would be king of everything made his first pronouncements. Greenland should be purchased by the United States. Canada should sell itself to the US. The Gulf of Mexico should be renamed ‘Gulf of America.’
Trump has started a scramble of imperial rebranding. France wants the return of what was called the Louisiana Purchase. `We sold it too cheap in 1803 to the United States for only $15 million because we bankrupted ourselves financing the American revolution against the perfidious Brits. We want it back – with interest. We also want parts of Quebec seized by the US. Vive la France!’
Not to be outdone, Spain and Mexico have joined in a class action suit to demand that the United States hand back the parts of northern Mexico and California it grabbed in the 1840’s
This is an interesting sarcastic article about Trump and his delusions of grandeur. Yes, we can buy everything and rule what we can’t buy using economic force. Isn’t it a grand world we live in?