It has been nearly 80 years since the United States expanded its territory, and there are increasing signs that President Donald Trump intends to change that. After what seemed in his first term like a lark about claiming Greenland, Trump has doubled down on that and other expansionist ideas.
The once-and-future President Trump’s repeated reference to absorbing Canada into the United States and somehow acquiring Greenland is not as crazy as it sounds. Mr. Trump, the Professor Harold ...
We are all experienced hands now when it comes to Trump’s nonsense, so we are rightly skeptical that he will pursue Greenland, Canada, or the Panama Canal to the extremes he has suggested.
Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal: excellent distractions for voters who believed Trump when he promised to reverse inflation. Otherwise, they might realize that the concerns of Trump’s ...
His undiplomatic talk in recent days of reclaiming the Panama Canal — and annexing Greenland and even Canada — have left world leaders scrambling to respond. Panama's foreign minister has insisted that the sovereignty of its vital canal, which the U.S ...
Iran has said it is ready to support Canada, Panama, Mexico and Greenland against US "aggression and terrorism" in response to the statements of the newly elected President of the United States Donald Trump. This was reported by The Mirror with reference ...
In the 1970s, a conservative coalition came together to fight ceding control of the Panama Canal—proving the political potency of the issue.
The answer is simple: there is no greater or more idealistic symbol of U.S. power in the world than the Panama Canal. As Trump seeks a way to enhance the country's power in the world, leaning on imagery regarding the Panama Canal provides just the right message.
He views Mexico as a source of unwanted migration, drugs and Chinese goods, Canada as a liberal dystopia and Greenland as a weak link. Some of his remarks are bluster. The Gulf of Mexico, he says, should be renamed the Gulf of America.
US President Donald Trump told business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that he wants to lower global oil prices, interest rates and taxes, and warned they will face tariffs if they make their products abroad.
Finland's foreign minister Elina Valtonen says Greenland is protected by Article 5 of NATO. Any attempt to militarily take over the autonomous Danish territory - as hinted at by US President Trump - would be covered by NATO security provisions.