# Trump now wants to use military force to take the Panama Canal and Greenland **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [January 7, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-now-wants-to-use-military-force-to-take-the-panama-canal-and-greenland/1012691 "2025-01-07T20:27:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 119
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-now-wants-to-use-military-force-to-take-the-panama-canal-and-greenland/1012691/119 "2025-01-09T17:26:43Z")
> [@Blam Canada!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blam-canada/1012757/18): > > craft pilsners locally now for example. Those are becoming big here t > [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > This is demonstrably false. > [@RickJay](#): > > Well, no, about half of American adults support him. I suppose I wasn’t clear that I meant those of us at the SDMB. And I’m going to be a little defensive here. The US is the largest (economically) and the most powerful, so Trump gets all the press. But MAGA-adjacent is happening in lots of places, including: Austria, Germany, France, The UK, India, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands… Maybe Canada is being spared, and if so, good for Canada. But the US is not alone in this. > [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > At $1M a person, that’s $55-56 billion. That’s way less than the value of the rare earths that could be extracted alone. Much less other mineral resources. Sure, there’s a price to pay to develop and extract, but that’s an insultingly low offer. Greenland sits on about 17 billion barrels of oil, which is worth about $1.2 trillion. And that’s just the oil, there’s lots of other stuff there too. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-now-wants-to-use-military-force-to-take-the-panama-canal-and-greenland/1012691)._