Many have heard president-elect Donald Trump’s response to a reporter’s question if he’d use military force to acquire Canada, like he said he might do with Greenland and the Panama Canal.
“Economic force because Canada and the United States, that would really be something,” Trump said in Florida earlier this week.
The comments have people talking and for good reason, according to political science professor Jeff MacLeod.
“When a foreign head of state, especially an incoming president of the United States, threatens the sovereignty of a NATO ally, you take it seriously,” MacLeod says. “I think it’s wise to have discussions with all of your allies and NATO and say, ‘Is the United States going rogue as one might say, are they threatening the very fabric of the NATO alliance and western structure that has existed since World War II?’”
The overt suggestion of a land grab might be a …