Trump Says US Should Take Ownership Of Greenland And Threatens Panama Canal Takeover

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Trump Says US Should Take Ownership Of Greenland And Threatens Panama Canal Takeover

Trump’s calls for taking over the Panama Canal and Greenland come just days after he appeared to mock the Canadian Prime Minister on his social media platform.

www.forbes.com

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday said the U.S. should seek to gain control of Greenland for national security reasons and threatened to take over the Panama Canal by force, marking the latest in a series of controversial foreign policy remarks Trump has made about allied nations.

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I believe their is a stipulation in the contract that if it is poorly handled or poorly managed the USA could take back over control again.

Donald Trump taunts Panama: "welcome to the United States canal"

Donald Trump has said that the U.S. could demand the return of the Panama Canal if the country fails to reduce the fees it charges American ships.

www.newsweek.com

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Hmmm...it probably won't stop there...lol...blessings.

 

[Hol]

It’s hard to tell when he’s serious.

 

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The way I take it, yes, he loves to troll the left and globalists. But, to me, it also sounds like taunts against a system that thought it had it made. My interest in pointing that out, although premature of course, is that there has been so much of an eye on the NWO takeover that now might be significantly challenged. If so, it offers the watcher community an opportunity to recalibrate.

I remember when watching Trump's first admin, I found it ironic how Trump then would use Twitter to say something goadding the left to take the bait. The left taking the bait. Only for Trump to be right in the end. It happened a lot. Although not as easily discernable because at that time propoganda against MAGA was high and raw and the US had not become yet accustomed to how owned it was by propoganda to begein with. I believe Trump became known for the term "Fake News." Its almost as if we had not realized such a thing before.

The term 'truther" arose out of the 911 inside job suspicions. Later "truther" seemed to imply those waking up (not "woke") outside the propaganda in the US in general. Its interesting on that note that. I remember a Democrat leaning friend of mine in 2017 had made fun of Trump being a 911 truther. I believe at that time it was understood he was. Bill Bar open and invistagation that seemed to go nowhere concerning 911. So I'm not sure what to make of all of that.

But there is this from Cathy which pretty much hints at Trump's nod perhaps at the potential of 911 inside job concerns.

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Blessings.

 

[Margery]

I remember the last time- he was serious about Greenland, and I totally understand why he wants to retake the Panama.

About Greenland. When he proposed to buy Greenland off of the kingdom of Denmark there were very very good reasons and they date back to the Cold War and missiles launched out of Russia. Greenland is an Arctic Circle land mass or island. It's on the other side of things from Canada and Alaska.

Russia has been increasing sub traffic and undersea exploration including in Canada's territorial waters. Trudeau doesn't do much about it. Alaska on one side of us, Denmark's Greenland on the other. We are a huge weak spot. Having a second "Alaska" on the Atlantic Arctic makes perfect sense.

Denmark turned him down --and the world made fun of him especially Hilary Clinton, that friend and ally of Russia. Obama laughed his head off at Mitt Romney's suggestion that Russia was a threat, but that was before they invaded the Ukraine after Trump lost to Biden.

I remember writing a huge piece on that, why Trump was right and why Greenland was strategically important for the US back when a lot of us were on RF. It was pre Covid.

I'm glad he's revisiting that idea.

As for the Panama, the problem is China. When the States gave Panama back to Panama to run (after bankrolling the canal) then China immediately began to buy up ports around the world, including the Panama Canal area.

Shipping, - the choke points around the globe immediately affect prices and supply chains. As we know from those Houthi attacks that Biden kept saying he'd fix and never has.

China has a vested interest in choke points around the world and controlling ports and shipping.

Have you noticed that the Yemeni Houthi's don't usually hit Chinese tankers except by accident? That was in the news over the last few years. The Houthis avoid hitting Russian, Chinese and Iranian ships. They target everyone else.

This suggests that there is a quiet slow steady takeover of shipping and ports around the world, using chokepoints to help it along. Like the Panama Canal. Panama is too corrupt to care so the Chinese have been making quiet inroads there.

The Democrats have ignored it (probably on the payroll) like Trudeau who has several people in his govt who are Chinese moles that he is protecting from being unmasked. Money talks.

 

[Margery]

Here's the Wikipedia Proposals for the United States to purchase Greenland - Wikipedia on the long history of American proposals to acquire Greenland. It's worthwhile reading, and the later entries include Chinese plans for Greenland.

I hope Trump is successful.

As the article points out in this excerpt, Greenland is VERY important to the protection of the USA ever since the Cold War. It also details Hilary Clinton's dealings with Greenland and Russia and Chinese interest in Greenland which I haven't quoted here, just follow the link to read those bits.

"In 1946 the Joint Chiefs of Staff listed Greenland and Iceland as two of the three essential international locations for American bases. During the creation of NATO, the two islands were seen as more important to American and Canadian defense than some Western European countries; Greenland is on the shortest polar route between Washington and Moscow, and about midway between the two cities.

As Denmark is unable to defend an ice-covered island 50 times larger than itself, in April 1951 the country and the United States signed a treaty which gave the latter exclusive jurisdiction over defense areas within Greenland.

Denmark recognized that without the agreement Greenland would become closer to the United States anyway, whether as a nominally independent country or with a Puerto Rico-like affiliation. The Pentagon told President Dwight Eisenhower that the Danes were "very cooperative in allowing the United States quite a free hand in Greenland". A Danish scholar later wrote that his country's sovereignty over the island during the Cold War was fictional, with the United States holding de facto sovereignty.

Circa 1953 in Operation Blue Jay the United States built Thule Air Base in northern Greenland. From 1959 the island was part of NORAD. Thule employed more than 1,000 Greenlanders and had almost 10,000 American personnel. It and about 50 other American bases performed duties such as tracking Soviet submarines in the GIUK gap. Camp Century was an experiment in polar engineering that presaged colonization of the Moon. The canceled Project Iceworm would have deployed 600 Minuteman missiles under the ice. United States interest abruptly declined after the Cold War the NORAD radars were abandoned, "though Thule, the United States’ northernmost air base houses the ...network of sensors, which provides early missile warning and space surveillance and control." and since 2004 Thule has been the only United States base, with a few hundred Americans. Post-Cold War United States disinterest in the island reportedly disappointed many Greenlanders""

Trump is trying to reverse decades of American indifference and complacency towards Russia's submarine and missile programs. That article explains some of Trump's first term efforts with Greenland, not just purchasing it.

Then after Trump's first term nothing much during the Biden era.

The story picks up here:

"Reuters described Greenland in October 2020 as "a security black hole" for the United States and allies, and that its 27,000 miles (44,000 km) of coastline was difficult to monitor. "On several occasions since 2006, foreign vessels have turned up unexpectedly or without the necessary protocols, in waters that NATO-member Denmark aims to defend", the news agency reported. Detection of foreign vessels, including a Russian submarine, has often been by accident. The security concerns described included the presence of Russian ships believed to have the ability to map the ocean floor, and deploy robots that could tap undersea cables or sever them during a conflict."

Trump was attempting to close those gaps in security, but the election overtook things and it's remained a "security black hole".

I'm glad to hear he's renewing his interest in Greenland.

 

[Margery]

If he can get Greenland - it forms a great strategic advantage tracking any missile or submarine traffic from the Arctic using the polar routes toward Washington DC from Moscow and the Arctic ports that Russia has.

He won't get Canada to join the States just yet, but trolling about that, and threatening 25% tariffs to take effect as soon as he takes office are all about American security and this Greenland proposal (and the Panama) are the same.

He's working hard to secure America and if that means forcing Canada to improve it's border security and drug situation, he ties that to tariffs.

With the Panama, by reactivating American control, he is protecting American shipping moving thru the Panama to and from the Pacific/Atlantic with ease. Protecting the economy and reducing costs for shipping.

In Greenland he's tightening up the security gaps left by previous administrations who didn't see Russia as a threat after Reagan and Gorbachev tore down the wall (and Gorbachev oversaw the complete meltdown of the Russian economy which led to the KGB takeover by Putin). If he can talk Denmark into selling off their Greenland obligation to protect (as a NATO country they have obligations there) then Trump can directly control who and what goes thru Greenlands waters and overhead in the skies.