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Panama Canal (first in a series) President Trump has been throwing out ideas for the territorial expansion of the US. The Panama Canal now connects the Gulf of America to the Pacific Oceans according to newly named Trump nomenclature. He says that we need to reacquire the Panama Canal by force, if necessary, purchase Greenland and add Canada to our list of states as being a strategic necessity for us. While his comments have been taken as threats by those they were directed at and discounted as whims by others, I believe that there is a solid rationale behind all of them and they need to be taken seriously and further examined. DJT desires to leave a historical legacy of being a consequential president that Made America Great. That is not just a slogan. First of all, changing borders or adding territories of influence can be accomplished by negotiation and deal making and that is what our new President relishes doing. This is by no means the first time we have negotiated such real estate expansions from the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867, known as Seward’s Folly at the time, to the use as the 49th parallel as our border with…

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