US Decries Annexation, Except When It's 'Our' Annexation
The New York Times breathlessly reports on Trump's musings of seizing Greenland 'the hard way,' a pronouncement deemed 'alarming' and 'destabilizing.' One might wonder why similar outrage is absent for, say, the ongoing annexation of Palestinian land funded by US taxpayers. While Trump dreams of a Nordic acquisition, the US has for decades actively facilitated Israel's expansion into the West
Bank, a project denounced by international law but consistently shielded from real consequences by Washington. This selective alarm is telling. The same establishment that condemned Russia's annexation of Crimea finds ways to rationalize or simply ignore similar territorial expansions when politically convenient. It’s almost as if 'international law' is a suggestion, not a rule, applied only to
those not receiving billions in annual aid and political cover from Washington.