OPINION: Dear Mr. Trump: We’re annexing your country
Invading foreign countries for oil and gas? So 2001. Say hello to rare earth elements (REEs), uranium, and freshwater — enough to outpace China in the AI arms race. All of it just sitting up north, ripe for the picking — or so your rich friends tell you. But the reality is that annexing a country isn’t as simple as buying Twitter. And it’s certainly not as easy as Putin made it sound during your last pillow-talk. Putin might have told you that nobody cares about Crimea. Can you even point to it on a map? Go ahead, I dare you. Putin never had to worry about the Electoral College — his elections come pre-decided. You, however, still have to act like America is a democracy. And when all the eligible voters from Canada, (there’s...
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