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Think Trump sounds absurd on Greenland? Canada has entertained crazier ideas.
Source: Washington Post
Think Trump sounds absurd on Greenland? Canada has entertained crazier ideas.
By J.J. McCullough
Global Opinions contributing columnist
August 22 at 2:40 PM
From one angle, President Trump’s desire to annex Greenland conjures memories of old-school imperialism.
“Thankfully, the time where you buy and sell countries and populations is over,” was the prime minister of Denmark’s incredulous reply when she first heard of Trump’s unsolicited offer to purchase the island.
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Take Canada, a country where important, serious-minded people in journalism, politics and academia are constantly floating absurd proposals for their country to seize, annex and control other nations that are no less preposterous than Trump’s Greenland plan. Yet, because these ideas are put forward with a certain genteel sanctimony, their authors are able to sell nakedly imperialist fantasies as merely the sensible benevolence of an advanced civilization.
Since at least the 1910s, proposals have been bouncing around Ottawa that Canada should annex an island chain in the Caribbean to “help” it in some way. It’s an idea that now takes form in a perennial fantasy that the supposedly struggling and unhappy Turks and Caicos Islands possess a latent desire to be absorbed by kind and loving Canada.
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By J.J. McCullough
Global Opinions contributing columnist
August 22 at 2:40 PM
From one angle, President Trump’s desire to annex Greenland conjures memories of old-school imperialism.
“Thankfully, the time where you buy and sell countries and populations is over,” was the prime minister of Denmark’s incredulous reply when she first heard of Trump’s unsolicited offer to purchase the island.
-snip-
Take Canada, a country where important, serious-minded people in journalism, politics and academia are constantly floating absurd proposals for their country to seize, annex and control other nations that are no less preposterous than Trump’s Greenland plan. Yet, because these ideas are put forward with a certain genteel sanctimony, their authors are able to sell nakedly imperialist fantasies as merely the sensible benevolence of an advanced civilization.
Since at least the 1910s, proposals have been bouncing around Ottawa that Canada should annex an island chain in the Caribbean to “help” it in some way. It’s an idea that now takes form in a perennial fantasy that the supposedly struggling and unhappy Turks and Caicos Islands possess a latent desire to be absorbed by kind and loving Canada.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/22/think-trump-sounds-absurd-greenland-canada-has-entertained-crazier-ideas/
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He’s a Canadian rightwing liar. “Cartoonist and Youtuber”
Not sure why the Post hired him.
Anyway, like Marc Thiessen, his goal is to spread propaganda to hurt liberals.
https://frankmag.ca/2018/06/29562/
Also he is a terrible cartoonist.
