Trump Opens Negotiations On Panama Canal And Greenland

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We are so back! Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals. President Once and Again Donald Trump, the real estate mogul, has opened negotiations for regaining the Panama Canal and purchasing Greenland from Denmark. Huzzah! I am giddy. While the insane Left gnashes their teeth and tears at their clothes, the bureaucratic minds of our country tug at their forelocks and tsk-tsk over Trump’s crazy notions. Getting the Panama Canal back and getting the rights to Greenland is freaking genius from a strategic point of view that it’s criminal we haven’t done it before.

According to the New York Post, Trump is serious about negotiations:

Donald Trump is “100% serious’’ about wanting to acquire Greenland and the Panama Canal as US territory, according to sources close to the president-elect — adding he looked into Greenland in his first term.

Over the weekend, Trump, 78, publicly floated the idea of US “ownership and control of Greenland” and taking back the Panama Canal because of its “ridiculous fees” for American ships.

Trump also has been referring to Canada for weeks as a prospective “state” with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as its “governor,” although that’s just a taunt, sources said.

I don’t know. The Canadians might be thrilled to be part of the United States after the centuries that Justin Trudeau has been screwing them over. Back to the Panama Canal. The Canal, thank you Teddy Roosevelt, was a symbol of the genius and technological prowess of the United States. According to the National Park Service, Jimmy Carter gave up the Panama Canal because the Latin American countries were in a snit over the power and might of the United States:

In spite of vocal opposition from Congress and the American public, Carter negotiated two new treaties: 1. The United States would retain the right to defend the canal forever. 2. The Canal Zone would be turned over to Panama in 1979, and a transfer of the operation of the canal would be complete by 1999. Panamanian voters approved these Carter-Torrijos Treaties in a special referendum.

The U.S. Constitution empowers the President to make treaties with “the advice and consent” of the Senate. In the case of the Panama Canal Treaties, thirty-eight Senators—more than enough to prevent ratification —had expressed opposition to the new agreements. Public opinion was also against the Treaties.

The President sent a task force across the country to make over 1500 presentations about the Treaties’ benefits. In a binder on his desk, Carter’s team kept track of conversations, rumors, and questions from Senators regarding the Treaties, quickly following up on each entry to win converts. Throughout the long Senate debate, Carter personally tracked the progress of the Treaties, talking daily with Senators, answering questions and agreeing to various Senate modifications to save the Treaties.

After three months of Senate debate in the spring of 1978, the Senate approved new Treaties governing the Panama Canal with one vote to spare: sixty-eight for—thirty-two against. Through personal attention, patience, and his willingness to make adjustments in the agreement, Carter had built support for them.

Damn dumb. Hong Kong (China) is actually operating two of the locks. Hong Kong may run them efficiently but at what cost to free trade. And, if we don’t own the Canal, the CCP could close it to us and whoever they wish:

We give the Panamanians back $5.27, which is what their 1977 $1.00 is worth and call it quits. Now on to the negotiations for Greenland.

Greenland is a future strategic blessing. Notice where it is located?

That bit across the Artic Circle is RUSSIA. Beyond that is China. Russia may be struggling for now with the strategic mistake of invading Ukraine, but she won’t be forever. Greenland is not just very important from a military standpoint:

It’s surer to pay off than all of our funding of the Ukraine War. I know who Trump can send as a chief negotiator: Kate Kilroy from his last term:

If the quickest way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, maybe the quickest way to convince Greenland to be annexed by the United States is to… buy the prime minister a meal?

Well, that did happen, courtesy of the Southern hospitality of one very friendly Coast Guard member who happened to be in Greenland.

While the Campbell was at port in Greenland’s capital city of Nuuk, (Seaman Kate) Kilroy visited a diner, where she saw a stranger sitting alone and bought him a meal, just as she would have done in the small North Carolina town of Apex, outside Raleigh, where she was raised.”

“It’s just something I do,” she said. “I grew up in a family that routinely gives to others.”

The stranger turned out to be Greenland’s prime minister, Kim Kielsen.”

“We had a nice conversation,” Kilroy said. “I was in the right place at the right time, doing what I do. That’s all.”

As a result, Prime Minister Kielsen paid a visit to the Coast Guard cutter Campbell, and took her captain on a tour of Greenland’s capital, Nuuk. It was a fun little encounter that resulted in a nice exercise in international relations. Plus, Seaman Kilroy was allowed to post her pictures of the trip on the Coast Guard’s official Instagram page.

Get Kate Kilroy and let’s get going. We still have to annex Canada after that.

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