As Karl Marx wrote, "history repeats, first as tragedy, then as farce."
Confirming this, we have just witnessed President Trump's attempted emulation of Hitler's 1938 Anschluss, or annexation, of a neighboring state.
In Hitler's case the neighbor, Austria, was a mere one eighth the size of Germany. Trump, in comparison, has displayed far grander ambition. He seeks to acquire Canada, a territory larger even than the United States itself, and more than 100 times larger than the Austrian territory occupied by Hitler's Germany.
Oh, and while he's about it, Trump demands control of Greenland, with its abundance of ice, oil and fish and an area 25 times that of Austria. Plus he intends to take back the Panama canal.
As yet, no one seems to be taking Trump entirely seriously. Still I worry. Canada is not a perfect society -- far from it. Still after more than sixty years since arriving in my early twenties, I'm used to it and would hate to see it become merely a rather cool part of the United States of Aggression.
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