Jay Zepher
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- Aug 21, 2020
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Debate over annexing Canada is nothing new and always ends with Canada should be Canada, independent and free. People were talking about that back in the 1970s and there were how many actual wars to take Canada way back in the US's founding and early years, all of those conflicts somehow ending unsuccessfully for the US.
Greenland is a unique situation. Trump is correct that Russia and China are very active in the region
Historically, the victors and explorers name lands and territories what they want. Since Alaska has been part of the US for over a hundred years the name of the mountain should be what the US originally called it.
The Gulf of Mexico is more problematic because it has historically (for hundreds of years) been called the Gulf of Mexico. Actually surprising, given the US's earlier belief in Manifest Destiny, that no one thought to rename it Gulf of America back then, especially since with the admittance of Texas and Florida into the union the Gulf of Mexico essentially, and geographically, became a US lake, which would make the term "Gulf of America" rather fitting.
Greenland is a unique situation. Trump is correct that Russia and China are very active in the region
Historically, the victors and explorers name lands and territories what they want. Since Alaska has been part of the US for over a hundred years the name of the mountain should be what the US originally called it.
The Gulf of Mexico is more problematic because it has historically (for hundreds of years) been called the Gulf of Mexico. Actually surprising, given the US's earlier belief in Manifest Destiny, that no one thought to rename it Gulf of America back then, especially since with the admittance of Texas and Florida into the union the Gulf of Mexico essentially, and geographically, became a US lake, which would make the term "Gulf of America" rather fitting.