After years of calling for border walls and closed borders with adjacent states, one might be forgiven for thinking that Trump has high regard for national borders. He doesn’t. He has about as much respect for borders as the Israelis have for the border with Syria, or the Russians have for the border with the Donbas, or George W. Bush had for the border with Iraq.
As he put it in Tuesday’s press conference, when asked why he thought the US should annex Canada, he said: “Because Canada and the United States, that would really be something. You get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a look at what that looks like, and it would also be much better for national security.”
Ah yes, that “artificially drawn line” that doesn’t mean much at all.
It looks like borders are good if people are coming in this direction but not so good when you want to take over another country. It looks like both situations are in play in the US at this time. This is state action to expand itself and is also called imperialism, whether you like it or not and whether it is someone else or us doing it. FTS