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Related: About this forumThink 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 Trumps 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 Denmarks incredulous reply when she first heard of Trumps 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 Trumps 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. Its 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 Trumps 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 Denmarks incredulous reply when she first heard of Trumps 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 Trumps 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. Its 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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Think Trump sounds absurd on Greenland? Canada has entertained crazier ideas. (Original Post)
Eugene
Aug 2019
OP
YES, he sounds and is ABSURD, no need to have this story ,NOT IMPORTANT right now
Eliot Rosewater
Aug 2019
#2
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)1. I wouldn't mind if they annexed Minnesota.
at140
(6,110 posts)3. Canadians love Florida...
They love escaping brutal cold winters in Canada. I bought my condo in Florida from a retired Canadian couple who had been using as a winter getaway for 10 years. I guess they just got too old to travel and put their condo on the market.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)2. YES, he sounds and is ABSURD, no need to have this story ,NOT IMPORTANT right now
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)4. This guy McCullough is a rightwing liar
Hes 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.