First it was buy Greenland, then make Canada a state. Now Donald Trump wants to own the Gaza Strip.

The President proposed on Tuesday that the U.S. should “own” the Gaza Strip, “level the site” and develop it, explicitly calling for displacing 2 million Palestinians from their homeland as the region’s leaders struggle to maintain a fragile ceasefire.

During a wide-ranging press conference with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump laid out a sweeping plan for the U.S. to colonize Gaza and build resorts there. “I don’t want to be cute. I don’t want to be a wise guy, but—the Riviera of the Middle East. This could be so magnificent,” Trump said.

  • chknbwl@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    No. Please see the forest for the trees.

    The US occupation of Gaza is currently not a possibility; the logistics of annexing a country on the other side of the world for financial gain is too complex for it to get traction. They are, however, using these wild claims like annexing Canada as well to muddy the waters and make journalism nigh-impossible. Then, when the media is sufficiently pre-occupied, they will push forth the real meat of Project 2025:

    1. Censoring anything they don’t agree with
    2. Purging governmental regulation, and
    3. Suppressing citizenry via police-force

    Then, when citizenry is oppressed and resources are conglomerated, the administration will focus it’s sights on foreign targets. This is when they’ll actually begin making serious threats of invasion.

    • auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 hours ago

      They’re annexing it in the capitalist sense not the government one. He’ll have cut a deal with them to carve up Gaza and sell it to the highest bidder with Trump getting the commission.

      Those other things you mentioned aren’t being talked about any less either.