Toronto Star: The Canadian reader will want to flip directly to page 15, for confirmation that, yes indeed, Trump is not joking with his threats to Canada. If it doesn’t become a literal 51st American state, he would happily render the country an economically dependent vassal state.
American domination is the clearly stated intention. He wants to make his country strong by keeping other nations in his sphere of influence — the western hemisphere — weak and reliant.
For Trump, who likes to put his touch and his name on everything, this falls under what the National Security Strategy calls the “Trump Corollary” to the 1823 Monroe Doctrine…