Same As It Ever Was

[With calls for the takeover of Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal] Mr. Trump’s fumbling around for a rallying cry becomes dangerous, for in treating international politics as if it were a game of Risk, he’s signaling that the world is governed by new rules, which are really old rules: The powerful do what they will; the weak suffer what they must.

— “Trump Dreams of a New American Empire,” Prof. Greg Grandin in The New York Times

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