Why does Trump want Greenland and the Panama Canal so badly? One reason may surprise you [View all]
Source: USA Today
Why does Trump want Greenland and the Panama Canal so badly? One reason may surprise you
Josh Meyer
USA Today
Published 7:57 a.m. ET Jan 8, 2025 | Updated 12:16 p.m. ET Jan 8, 2025
WASHINGTON − Why is President-elect Donald Trump so committed to acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal that he’d be willing to use military coercion to get them?
The short answer is that Trump is jockeying for geopolitical supremacy over what he believes are an expansionist-minded China and Russia, two former top Trump national security aides told USA TODAY.
But Trump’s concerns are also heavily influenced by something he often does not acknowledge: climate change and its growing influence on national security.
Trump has had his eyes on the massive but remote Arctic island since his first term. He doubled down on that – and his interest in the coast-to-coast Central American waterway that is the Panama Canal – in recent weeks as he prepares to take office.
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