U.S. President Donald Trump has made recent comments about a plan to annex Greenland.
Professor of American and Canadian Politics at Fanshawe College Matt Farrell talked about what the situation means for Canadians.
“We want to be on good terms with the Americans, because we don’t want to be next. We don’t want to be the next country that they have their sights on and trying to coerce and potentially exerting military force to do what they want us to do.
Trump has been making comments about annexing Greenland ever since Jan. 3, after going into Venezuela and taking the Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro.
Farrell also talks about the potential dilemma that Canada faces:
“Canada, we end up being sandwiched between a potentially hostile America and a potentially hostile America. We’re sort of hemmed in there with not much protection. So we’re more vulnerable in that sense, in a strategic sense.”
Farrell also talks about Trump and his ideology behind these comments;
“I mean, if we just look at the first Trump presidency and so far in this one, he likes things on maps. He famously drew a Sharpie on a map to try and suggest that the hurricane was going to follow a path that he suggested. He has a big map in the Oval Office that says the Gulf of America instead of the Gulf of Mexico. And so when he looks at the map of North America and he sees Greenland up there, I feel like he just sees big blobs on a map.”
Trump took to truth social to post about the whole situation saying;
“The United States needs Greenland for the purpose of national security. If we don’t, Russia or China will and that is not going to happen.”
