What self-respecting strongman does not have territorial expansion on his wish list?
U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has mused repeatedly in recent weeks about taking over the Panama Canal and Greenland, and even making Canada the 51st American state. And while most analysts have rejected his comments as unserious, there is more to Mr. Trump’s expansionist mutterings than merely a bad joke by a low-information leader who remains a Manhattan real estate developer at heart.
