beSpacific<p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Political</span></a> Logic of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s International <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Threats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Threats</span></a>. Renaming Gulf of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mexico</span></a> is a lot simpler than building the wall. Since winning 2nd term <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> has made curious pivot to a kind of performative <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imperialism</span></a>..acquiring <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greenland</span></a>.. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/taunting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>taunting</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> by referring to its prime minister [who resigned] as a “governor” and vaguely threatening a#nnexation. He began demanding a return of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/PanamaCanal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PanamaCanal</span></a>, which US ceded more than 4 decades ago. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/cognitive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cognitive</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/decline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decline</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/dementia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dementia</span></a> <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/01/trump-performative-imperialism-greenland-panama-canal/681232/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/politics/archi</span><span class="invisible">ve/2025/01/trump-performative-imperialism-greenland-panama-canal/681232/</span></a></p>