Trump's Talk of Territorial Expansion

Trump is making threats to allies as part of his effort to further weaken American standing in the world.

Since winning the election, Donald Trump has become somewhat obsessed with territorial expansion and has expressed an interest in making Canada, Panama and Greenland part of the US. It is easy and tempting to dismiss this talk as the ravings of a mentally unstable despot who has only a tenuous relationship with reality, or as an effort to distract Ameri…