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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN is whitewashing Trump's vision of invading and conquering other countries.
"Trump is teasing US expansion into Panama, Greenland and Canada'
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/23/politics/trump-us-expansion-panama-canada-greenland/index.html
You know, like Hitler "expanded" into Poland and Sudatenland and France.
Like how Stalin "expanded" into Poland and Germany and Slovakia.
It's called INVASION.
And it's called INSANE.
And it's not "teasing". It's THREATENING our allies!
Irish_Dem
(59,741 posts)They all belong to the US. Everything belongs to the US.
We are taking what is rightfully ours.
Resistance is futile, they will be assimilated.
DENVERPOPS
(10,158 posts)Remember, Trump, Lindsay and others are Putin's lap poodles.......
Irish_Dem
(59,741 posts)RockRaven
(16,537 posts)Johnny2X2X
(21,885 posts)The media works for the Rightwing oligarchs that installed Trump. The sooner people accept that the sooner we can come up with a way to address it.
0rganism
(24,762 posts)First, grotesque of TSF to make such proclamations. It's expected but no less nauseating when it happens.
Second, grotesque of the DC political establishment to treat this bullshit as plausible, let alone justifiable. They're paid well to know better.
Third (possibly worst of all), exceedingly grotesque of CNN to publish such an uncritical fluff-job of an article that normalizes expansionist aggression while apparently regarding these ideas as novel and exciting. "Teases"? Really? I have never seen such twisted self-debasing complicity from the press, even after the 9-11 attacks when W could do no wrong. This article reeks of a terrified news-media operating in fear for its very life, completely incapable of performing anything resembling responsible journalism. In the most generous interpretation, it quite possibly stands as an unwitting plea for divine intervention, yet even so it remains callous, foul, and disgusting.
Grotesque.
malaise
(278,812 posts)While screaming about democracy.
It is farce. M$Greedias billionaire owners are imperialists.
slightlv
(4,445 posts)considering WHO he's wanting to "annex" into the U.S. They have better functioning democracies than WE do!
malaise
(278,812 posts)Rec
blueseas
(11,613 posts)And Time as well
Corected
Person of the year
AncientOfDays
(208 posts)He's got a resort there that appears to be a money-laundering pit for drug cartels and Russian mafia.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/360852-trump-building-in-panama-tied-to-russian-mafia-international-crime/
Also some rumors of tax evasion.
paleotn
(19,532 posts)Oh, wait! He's just about out of time. Bummer.
paleotn
(19,532 posts)He's spewing bullshit once again. Yes, it's disturbing, but really he's just trolling. US tanks aren't rolling into Canada, he can't take back the canal and Greenland is a gigantic iceberg that wants nothing to do with him or us.
orangecrush
(22,131 posts)I think you're in for a rude awakening.
Renew Deal
(83,075 posts)Blue_Tires
(56,752 posts)Have been awfully damned quiet lately...
Baitball Blogger
(48,436 posts)barbtries
(29,955 posts)the legacy, for profit, corporate press has failed this country abjectly.
Vinca
(51,241 posts)of seeing that loathsome, moronic Scott Jennings on the panel. He thought Trump buying Greenland was the greatest idea in the history of time. OMG . . . it's going to be a long, long, long 4 years.
Kaleva
(38,544 posts)viva la
(3,862 posts)It's even worse today:
Trump Considers US Expansion.
It's like CNN is presenting this as a real option-- that we can just EXPAND INTO Canada. They even marvel that it would "rival the Louisiana Purchase!"
These are actual sovereign countries with citizens.
Of course it's completely not possible. But they don't headline:
Trump Considers Idiotic, Insane, Illegal Invasion of Our Allies