Throughout history, controlling trade routes has been an important part of opening the world. Through various large companies and through government action, routes opened and people benefited - from the sellers to the buyers to the people and companies that facility the trade.
What was the Silk Road? A trade route. What of Marco Polo and other early traders? They looked to open trade.
The new world opened trade routes that now needed military ships to protect these routes. (And if you think about it, the stamp act, the tea party, and other pre-revolutionary war actions were fueled by this trade being unfavorable to the colonists)
The Panama Canal opened as a means to make trading with Asia easier.
Germany looked to disrupt trade routes in order to further their goals of European domination.
Oil and natural gas are always commodities that travel along some routes to literally fuel our lives.
In the early 20th century, wealthy industrialists made their mark, too. They looked to own certain passages, owned shipping companies, harbors and ports, and then sought to make ways for the goods to be delivered.
And here we are in the 21st century and it's playing out again, and still.
Putin took Crimea and is still trying to take Ukraine. Why? Because there are ports to be had and trade to control.
And that brings us around to the topic at hand.
Why does T-rump want the Panama Canal? Because it is still a vital part of trade with Asia. And of course the US no longer controls the canal, and several other nations are working to create a new shipping channel through part of Panama to bypass the old canal. So there's money to be made that we are missing out on.
Funny enough, some of these venture capital companies now own a lot of ports that are useful in the area, but they could be even more profitable if they had a "friendly" agreement with the owners of the canal.
And then there's Greenland. Its seems illogical that the US would show such great interest in it.
Except that with climate change comes melting ice, meaning that new shipping channels are starting to open much further north than they ever could have. And Greenland would be part of the shipping channel, a place where goods could be held before shipping to the Americas or other places further south.
And there's your proverbial killing two birds with one stone. Saying climate change isn't real while using it to your advantage to increase potential profits, all the while acting like 20th century robber barons, T-rump stands to reshape global trade. And meanwhile he can take any natural resources he wants from Greenland.
And he and his allies get rich.
It's so 19th and early 20th century diabolical. But in the great magicians trick, pay no attention to that. DEI! That's what we need to focus on!
Wake up people.
