Control over Canada has been a goal of the US since Abraham Lincoln was President. Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of State, William Henry Seward, was determined to take Canada ... he was a rabid expansionist.
Remember "Seward's Folly"? That's when the US bought Alaska from Russia and then tried to buy Greenland from Denmark. People thought Seward was a fool for buying all that unproductive land. But Canada was his goal.
Seward claimed that Canada, sandwiched between two large American states, would then become part of Canada. Canadians would have no other choice but to become part of the United States.
It was Seward who also bought the Danish West Indies in 1865, which was renamed the US Virgin Islands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_United_States_acquisition_of_Greenland
Climate change has significantly increased the value of the Northwest Passage (which passes between Canada and Greenland).
Canada is in the cross-hairs.
Charles
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