Trump's threats to seize the Panama Canal and Greenland sound like Putin on Ukraine | Trudy Rubin

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The message to Trump is: Let's divide a large chunk of the world up between the big boys, you and me.
55% : "This is more than a sphere of influence; it is a sphere of control, with a mixture of outright territorial reintegration of some places and dominance in the security, political, and economic spheres of others.
55% : As for the U.S. sphere of influence, Trump yearns to resurrect the Monroe Doctrine (which he has praised at the United Nations).
53% : " READ MORE: To predict what Trump will do at home, look at the strongmen he most admires overseas | Trudy RubinThe same week Donald Trump Jr. visited Greenland's capital of Nuuk to dispense MAGA talking points in front of TV cameras, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the island is "not for sale," adding that "Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders."
36% : But I soon realized there are two main things you need to observe closely in the new year to assess whether this chaotic world will grow more stable: what Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin each want from the world (hint: it seems to be the same thing), and where that obsession will lead them -- and the rest of us.
30% : When he suggested renaming the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America," Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum trolled Trump with a 17th-century map labeling the United States "America Mexicana.
27% : But if Trump hands off Ukraine to Putin and fatally weakens NATO, Putin emerges as the winner, and the United States will look like a fading power.
27% : If Trump would only recognize the Russian threat.
26% : "This is why Putin has insisted over and over that any talks on Ukraine be conducted between him and Trump without Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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