• SevenSkalls [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Sounds like Holden Bloodfeast has been trying but Trump doesn’t care. He wants new territory and he’s not going to get it from the desperate neocons in his cabinet trying to bomb Iran or fight Russia lol.

      Got to hand it to him, he does know that the easiest way is going to be from the weak and pathetic EU.

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        I think at some point someone put the idea in his head that all the “greatest” presidents conquered territory for the US, and so he is convinced he needs to do that as well and refuses to back down.

        Or it could be a push and pull between different factions, some who recognise that the US cannot continue as it is without more resources, and some that would rather just not rock the boat and continue stripping the copper from the walls.

          • If that’s all it were, it’d be easy:

            • Puerto Rico
            • Virgin Islands (hell, take the British ones too)
            • Guam
            • American Samoa (by the time you’re snatching the BVI you really think Samoa’s gonna put up a fight when you fold it in too?)
            • Mariana Islands

            Boom, 11 columns of 5 so the new flag won’t even look too different.

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              1. too spanish (woke)
              2. and become the Virgin president?
              3. too tiny (woke)
              4. reminds me of samoa joe, which reminds me of sleepy joe, no go.
              5. sounds too italian, mama mia, next you’ll be saying we should allow them to join our Beautiful Union
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            Greenland is not white enough to be a state. It is majority indigenous. The population is also very small.

            Maybe they think they can flood it with white settlers but there’s good material reasons why it is so sparsely populated.

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            On a Mercator map it’s bigger than the USA. I don’t think he’s able to understand what a 3km ice sheet means for mineral extraction, and he’s lived inside a solid gold echo chamber his whole life so I don’t think he knows what polar climates are able to support in terms of agriculture or general habitability. I think he’s looking at maps and seeing a really big piece of land basically next door and he wants to be immortalized

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        Got to hand it to him, he does know that the easiest way is going to be from the weak and pathetic EU.

        I won’t hand it to him if he doesn’t invade mainland €ur𖦏p€.