9 January 2025 — Current events flip my mind back 130 years, to an 1895 Punch cartoon, by Sir John Tenniel.
Master Johnny Bull asks, “Monroe Doctrine? What is the Monroe Doctrine?”
Master Jonathan (aka James Monroe) answers: “Wa-al — Guess it’s that everything everywhere belongs to us.”
In his December 2, 1823 address to Congress, President James Monroe articulated what was to be United States policy concerning the rest of the Americas.
“By the mid-1800s” — says the Office of the Historian, in its series Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations — “Monroe’s declaration, combined with the ideas of Manifest Destiny, provided precedent and support for U.S. expansion on the American continent…”
WALKING WOMAN 
Blane Hogue
/ 9 January 2025One American congressman said yesterday “ Canada and Greenland should be honoured that President Trump wants to take them into the American fold”!
Lynette d'Arty-Cross
/ 9 January 2025I couldn’t agree more, Penny.
Nancy Loviska
/ 9 January 2025The incoming U.S. “administration” is the last thing the world needs right now. They are evil, twisted, Machiavellian, and some are very stupid, like most of their supporters. Sorry, world. I hope Canada avoids making a similar mistake.
Nancy from Seattle WA
icelandpenny
/ 11 January 2025I’d like us to avoid that path, but if this in-coming administration has its way, Canada will have no choice in the matter: we will be subjugated — thanks for your comment, and my best wishes to you Nancy for the new year