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1. "Considers" is the wrong word here. Trump hasn't considered anything in his entire life, and he certainly hasn't started now. He consistently acts without thinking, such as his recent threats to the President of Panama via social media. The correct word for that is "threaten".
2. "Expansion" is the wrong word here. Expansion implies peaceful or at least negotiated growth. What Trump has threatened is taking land by force. The correct word for that is "invasion".
3. "If he's serious" is the wrong phrase here. Under no circumstances should anyone suggest threatening war with our allies is an unserious action. He's not a clown. He's the president elect. The correct phrase to describe his actions is "If he's not lying".
4. "Territorial" is the wrong phrase here. Panama, Greenland, and Canada are sovereign nations, who have roundly rejected outright any attempt at annexation by the US. The correct word for a military annexation is "occupied territory".
5. "Louisiana Purchase" is the wrong phrase here. The Louisiana Purchase was the result of a purchase agreement. What Trump is threatening Panama, Greenland, and Canada with is military occupation. The closest historical example is the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, and Germany's annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland in 1938.
With that in mind, here's your corrected, now accurate title, CNN:
"Trump Threatens US Invasion.
If he isn't lying, an occupied territorial invasion and military annexation of Panama, Greenland, and Canada, would rival the Anschluß of Austria by Nazi Germany."
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@solownh @Lana what do you expect from #BillionaireMedia that are already "Deepthroating the Boot"...
@Lana Thank you!! It is endlessly frustrating to be reading yet another round of normalization and sane-washing of Trump’s bizarre and dangerous behavior, especially when it comes so close to home (I’m a Dane, hence in commonwealth with Greenland).
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You could also end the sentence with:
....., would rival the annexation of Crimea (Ukraine) by Russia in 2014.
@Lana would be strange, be something like, I don’t know, maybe, äh, maybe like Russia invades Ukraine …
@Lana wrote:
"Panama, Greenland, and Canada are sovereign nations, who have roundly rejected outright any attempt at annexation by the US."
Not just rejected—Canada actually fought a war over this in 1812-1815. A war that we won, by the way.
@MachineLordZero @thbthttt @Lana Would you, please? January 21st seems like a good day to make it happen....
@Lana That headline and subhead are almost as insane as the man himself. I'm surprised they're not calling it 'bold' or 'ambitious.'
@Lana The Louisiana Purchase was an invasion. Most of the territory the French sold were not under their own control, but under control of native Americans.
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He's flooding the media with distractions- exactly what GOP knew he'd do, so there's less attention to cutting away the foundations of democracy.
Excellent and devastating close reading that reveals the truth of this bad faith headline. Thank you.
@Lana but you'll never manufacture consent with a headline like that.
@Lana Doesn't the Russian invasion of Ukraine also fall under 5.?
@Lana No new US territories until DC, Puerto Rico and Guam get statehood.
@Lana bonjour comment allez-vous pourquoi m’avez-vous vous contacté
Holy crap is CNN bad at journalism.
CNN is worse than complicit.
Honestly, how dare they? Or more to the point, how can they be this stupid?
This is my gif for the next four years (assuming we all survive and there's an Internet to post it on). That's right. It's mine now. I licked it.
Gah, this is infuriating and dangerous.
@Lana if he tries to invade any of those territories, I can promise you a lot of dead american soldiers and a LOT of celebrating/parading corpses through the streets/“indignities” to those caught alive. We won’t win, but you’re not going to like what we will do to your sons and daughters
@Lana Seattle editorial cartoonist's take on "expanding" into Canada. https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/incoming-neighbor-has-canada-gritting-its-teeth/
Next target is the world domination. Later he will take also the moon and Mars for his friend Elon.
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suspect he won't last full term due to cognitive issues
@Lana The US military cannot keep the Red Sea open to international shipping. How would they ever keep the Panama Canal open, an 82km long ditch?
@Lana Also, just to be clear, occupying Canada alone, the 2nd largest country by area on earth, would dwarf the area covered by the Louisiana Purchase. It would also expose US forces to a ruthless campaign of asymmetric warfare yet unseen. Just try it, you stunned fucks.
@Lana If I am not mistaken, the annexiation of Austria was a rather peaceful act. Perhaps the invasion of poland would be a better example....
The annexiation of austria happenend (and worked that way) because *austrians* actually wanted to be part of the third reich.
I doubt that that is the right example for Panama, Greenland and/or Canada...
@Lana Does the average US citizen today feel like the average German citizen in 1938, like ""So we're expanding? Okay, guess it's fine with some Lebensraum!"
@Lana you can trust cnn to sanitize and whitewash any crime
it's more comparable to invading Poland for territory tbh.
@Lana Well-written lesson. I wish there was a way to get the right people to read and understand it!
@Lana
He learned from Putin.
@Lana The unPresident referred to "people in Greenland ... who want" this preposterous embarrassment for themselves ... suppose 568 such people ... would be 1% of the population.
What a fool. Making America Rdidiculous Again !
Thank you. This is a big issue. We (mainly speaking as a foreigner here but it seems it's the same in US?) always describe Trump as a clown, just like we did with Bush Jr and I feel this is a big help for him.
It's like, "oh he can't be serious, ahah!"... but he is serious. He's a big thread to the world and we should really stop seeing him as a clown and instead focus on how to stop that fucking crazy dictator we have on our hands :S