Trump floats claims for Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal (Update: Trump wants Gaza too) (3 Viewers)

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    Oh, but he's only joking - well, maybe, so they say. Or sort of joking with Canada, and maybe not joking with Greenland - saying that "ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity" doesn't sound like a joke . . . and um, not sure about what the about Panama Canal thing is?

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    Trump Jokes Canada Becoming 51st US State 'A Great Idea'

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    apnews.com

    Trump threatens to try to take back the Panama Canal. Panama's president balks at the suggestion

    Trump didn't explain how such a takeover would be possible, given that the U.S. relinquished control of the canal to Panama in 1999 under a treaty signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1977.
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    Optimus Prime said:
    Until just a few weeks ago, it was an exhilarating time to be a Conservative in Canada

    After nearly 10 years of Liberal rule, a deepening cost of living crisis had soured public support for Justin Trudeau and his shop-worn government. The Tory leader, Pierre Poilievre, had seized on a controversial carbon levy, and pledged to make the next federal vote an “axe the tax” election.

    Pollsters predicted his party would seize a convincing majority of seats. The country was on the cusp of a new Conservative era.

    And then Donald Trump suggested the US might take over Canada.

    The US president’s threats – ranging from “economic coercion” to outright annexation – have upended Canadian politics in a way few could have predicted. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday as he travelled to the Super Bowl game, Trump further escalated his rhetoric, claiming that Canada is “not viable as a country” without US trade, and warning that it can no longer depend on the US for military protection.

    For the last two years, any consideration of the future of Canada’s Liberal party had focused on the scale of its impending electoral loss. But in recent weeks, a series of polls have suggested that the Liberals have reversed their freefall.

    And a key factor in the party’s apparent resurrection has been Trump.

    Since Trump’s comments, Canada has seen a groundswell of visceral patriotism. Maga-style hats emblazoned “Canada Is Not For Sale” went viral. Canadians jeered visiting American sports teams, even during a children’s ice hockey tournament in Quebec City……….

    www.theguardian.com

    Canada’s Liberal party was left for dead, but Trump might have just given it a second chance

    Experts say the US president’s takeover threat will shift election priorities to who seems best suited to face Trump
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    It would be nice if he ends up providing the same reaction/rebirth for the liberal party in the US, too.
     
    DJ1BigTymer said:
    This isn't even trolling, this is just juvenile.
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    Greenland is not for sale . Even the greenlanders don't want to be a part of this shirt show

    Trump sounds like Hitler in '44 moving around imaginary armies and no one had the courage to actually tell him the truth. Triump is displaying the same sense of reality as Hitler did then and the Maga Republicans enables him just as the german generals did then,
     
    Donald Trump continued to push his plan for MAGA-fied peace in the Middle East on Tuesday: the illegal removal of more than two million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, an act that would likely be considered ethnic cleansing under international law.

    But outside of the meeting rooms and cocktail lounges where the Trumpworld elite now congregate in Washington D.C., some experts seemed to think it would not actually even be seriously attempted.

    On Tuesday, the US president insisted that Palestinians in Gaza no longer wanted to live there and claimed that the “civilization” had been completely wiped out in the region by Israel’s year-long assault.

    “I’ve watched it so long, all the death and destruction of Gaza. A civilization’s been wiped out in Gaza,” Trump said on Tuesday…….

    www.independent.co.uk

    ‘It’s so ridiculous’: Experts say Trump’s plan to ‘take’ Gaza will never work

    ‘The genie is out of the bottle. Now ethnic cleansing becomes a policy choice, as opposed to a crime against humanity’
    www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    Donald Trump continued to push his plan for MAGA-fied peace in the Middle East on Tuesday: the illegal removal of more than two million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, an act that would likely be considered ethnic cleansing under international law.

    But outside of the meeting rooms and cocktail lounges where the Trumpworld elite now congregate in Washington D.C., some experts seemed to think it would not actually even be seriously attempted.

    On Tuesday, the US president insisted that Palestinians in Gaza no longer wanted to live there and claimed that the “civilization” had been completely wiped out in the region by Israel’s year-long assault.

    “I’ve watched it so long, all the death and destruction of Gaza. A civilization’s been wiped out in Gaza,” Trump said on Tuesday…….

    www.independent.co.uk

    ‘It’s so ridiculous’: Experts say Trump’s plan to ‘take’ Gaza will never work

    ‘The genie is out of the bottle. Now ethnic cleansing becomes a policy choice, as opposed to a crime against humanity’
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    I'm tired of these people who think, "it would not actually even be seriously attempted". They say that about everything that comes out of Trump's mouth because they "never take him seriously", and then it happens. These people should not be listened to.
     
    Dragon said:
    Greenland is not for sale . Even the greenlanders don't want to be a part of this shirt show

    Trump sounds like Hitler in '44 moving around imaginary armies and no one had the courage to actually tell him the truth. Triump is displaying the same sense of reality as Hitler did then and the Maga Republicans enables him just as the german generals did then,
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    Unfortunately, the American military is very, very real.

    Edit: That's a sentence I never thought I'd type.
     
    brandon said:
    Unfortunately, the American military is very, very real.

    Edit: That's a sentence I never thought I'd type.
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    The irony of it all is that my husbands nephew served with the danish support units in Afghanistan. He got injured during the fighting and had to undergo several surgeries and is partly disabled today. His two best friends got killed. All in a war started by the USA
     

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