Comment on Trump’s Wish to Control Greenland and Panama Canal: Not a Joke This Time
ladicius@lemmy.world 2 days ago
But who is motivating him to do so? Orange shit stain never used a single braincell off his own few since his overlord Pootin filmed him dousing minors with piss (pretty sure the Moscow piss videos include CP as pissing is a negligible kink that wouldn’t make him so compliant).
Who really needs strategic access to Greenland and the Panama channel?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There’s a mixed bag of old school neocons, bloodthirsty groypers, and profit seeking capitalists who would all love an “easy” land grab in a relatively underdeveloped region. In the same way Israelis marching into Gaza, slaughtering the residents, and sending in waves of geeked up settlers to lay claim to the turf is popular in the Middle East, you could easily find a surplus of poor, angry, desperate young men in the States to free-boot in Latin America or some desolate northern wasteland.
Greenland has a ton of untapped mineral wealth looked under the ice sheets. Panama’s strategic significance to international shipping is only behind the Suez Canal and Singapore. I’m sure Chinese shipping magnets and mining companies would love to have claims on them both. But this is more about the DC reinforcing its control of the Atlantic than Beijing making a stretch claim on the other side of the world.
The Soviet-Sino split isn’t even cold in the ground and Model UN brainiacs think Moscow is already fully beholden to Beijing.
Madison420@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s about controlling trade, that’s it.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Always has been.