{"id":291,"date":"2025-01-14T00:48:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T00:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/01\/14\/why-trump-turned-to-manifest-destiny-the-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T00:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T00:48:20","slug":"why-trump-turned-to-manifest-destiny-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/01\/14\/why-trump-turned-to-manifest-destiny-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump Turned to Manifest Destiny – The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President-elect Donald Trump is still a week away from taking office, but his musings about coercing Canada to join the United States while acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal \u2014 declining at one point to rule out the use of military force<\/a> in those two particular cases \u2014 have made for a surreal prologue to his second administration. It\u2019s a fixation that has set world leaders on edge<\/a> and forced congressional Republicans into the odd position of insisting that the incoming president is not planning to storm the Arctic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States is not going to invade another country,\u201d Senator James Lankford, Republican of Oklahoma, said yesterday<\/a> on \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d <\/em>Trump, Lankford insisted, was simply making \u201cbold\u201d statements intended on getting \u201ceveryone to the table.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether the words are a negotiating tactic or something more, the president-elect\u2019s expressed desire to expand the nation\u2019s footprint reflects an urge that has animated much of his career in the public eye: to make whatever he controls as big as possible.<\/p>\n

In that sense, Trump\u2019s talk of taking control of Greenland and seizing Canada by \u201ceconomic force\u201d can be viewed less as an articulation of a foreign policy objective than as an extension of an ethos that goes back to his single-minded efforts to expand his businesses through a series of acquisitions in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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