Annexing Greenland and Canada: How should we handle Trump’s remarks?
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President-elect Donald Trump has no trouble making news, as his Jan. 7 news conference demonstrated. “Greenland, gas heaters and the Gulf: Takeaways from Trump’s press conference,” reads the headline of a Reuters write-up on the event. Indeed, territorial expansion was the headlining material, as Trump outlined an agenda to annex Greenland and assume control of the Panama Canal. Another bucket list item: Change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.”
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