WhatsappWho ever could have imagined 40 years ago that there would be a President of the United States who within his 1st month of his Presidency would present bold plans to both retake the Panama Canal, purchase Greenland, and move one million + Arabs out of Gaza in order to achieve a more peaceful Middle East?
Many will argue that these are non-realistic dreams that will not eventually happen. But history has shown that these ideas should not be taken lightly. There is much more of a chance that President Trump will succeed in making sure that the United States has control of the Panama Canal than that the United States will actually purchase Greenland. But both may indeed happen. It is the same reason that President Trump is focused on. He wants to make sure that the Western Hemisphere is free of Chinese and Russian influence in matters of national security.
He properly sees that China has invested heavily in building a world class navy that could threaten Taiwan and other countries to the southeast of China. One critical step that Donald Trump does not want to be elbowed out of is the ability to quickly send American ships to the Pacific theater from the Atlantic. The Panama Canal is the key to this. Greenland is not only rich in resoures. It presents the shortest route from Asia to parts of the northeast United States. Anyone who thinks that China has no interest in threatening the United States should be studying the rapid progress of the Belt and Road Initiative that China has been spreading across the globe. The tentacles of this idea will not stop at the Atlantic Ocean. They are already well into South America and Latin America.
The truth is that bringing calm and relative peace to the Middle East is around one thousand times more challenging than the Panama Canal and Greenland ideas. But one of the impressive things about this 2nd Trump administration is that their are an impressive group of like-minded people in powerful positions of the administration who see things eye to eye on the Middle East.
Additionally, Donald Trump is no longer a businessman outsider that squeaked out a surprise election victory. He has an impressive mandate to lead with excellent support in the Senate and a small majority in the House of Representatives that does not want to see much military interventionism around the world. That is a healthy situation for Donald Trump to lead with bold ideas such as creating the Middle East Riviera on the Gaza beach and providing Israel strong support for destroying Hamas completely.
There may indeed be some Arab refugees from Gaza that will end up in far away locations like Indonesia, Morocco, and – who knows – perhaps even in Greenland.
