Josh Marshall is 100% right about this. All this Greenland/Panama/Canada stuff? It's not going to happen. It could conceivably happen, in the same conceivable way that Korea and Japan go to war over shipping lanes. Possible? Yeah. But very, very unlikely. Koreans and the Japanese don't love each other, but they aren't going to go down this road to Crazytown.
Trump is already in Crazytown. He's the mayor. He says this crap to get us to react to it. Marshall is very astute that this bullshit is bullshit for bullshit's sake. He wants you to react to the next outrage.
The proper tone to adopt for this is mocking, not alarm. Don't let Grampa Shoutypants live in your head. He poses a threat to many things, but Canada isn't one of them.
Which is a shame, because annexing Canada would make it impossible for Republicans to win elections anymore.
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