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From what is American independence therefore derived? [1]
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Date: 2025-03-14
I'm really trying to parse Trump's latest verbal spew.
Other than encouraging people to buy a "Tesler," he waxed on about how the boundary between Canada is artificial and was merely a straight line drawn "decades and decades ago" (in fact, it was drawn between Great Britain and the US in 1846, so that would be about 18 decades ago, or 179 years).
He seems to forget that this border was drawn together with the state from which the US received its independence in the Treaty of Paris in 1783. So the boundary was not a bifurcation of some natural "American territory," but rather between Great Britain and a state that devolved from it.
(One wonders if Great Britain could, at this point, revoke its recognition of American independence).
More teachings of the Orange One included that Denmark doesn't really have sovereignty over Greenland. Some guy sailed a boat there 200 years ago, Trump claimed. Actually, there were Norse settlers in Greenland in the 10th century, and it's believed that these original settlers were later assimilated into the Inuit population. Denmark has asserted sovereignty over Greenland since the 1720s.
The real interest in Greenland is coming from certain companies that are whispering in Trump's ear, not unlike those pineapple plantation owners in Hawaii in the 1890s. There is no pro-American party in Greenland. Trump claims that the election was somehow a success for his vision of wresting control of the country from its NATO ally, Denmark though.
Here is the question, if Danish sovereignty over Greenland is questionable, as is the Canadian border, then isn't American independence also sort of ... superficial and flimsy?
From what is American independence therefore derived?
I know it makes no sense to provide any real analysis of these statements. Trump is living in a half-dream world. The real trouble is with the Republicans in the Senate and Congress who are unwilling to say anything about it.
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