

So Russia, China, and USA are displaying their desire for territory growth, and you’re suggesting that they’re secretly aligned and can manufacture conflict?
I feel like there was a book with that premise but for the life of me I literally can’t remember the name. Literally.
I’d go even one step further, which is to say he’s even dumber and more petty than you’re even giving him credit for.
He thinks expanding the physical size of a nation is a metric for success. Greenland is relatively large, (and he thinks it’s larger than it really is because he can not comprehend the reality of a Mercator projection). He knows there’s only a few tens of thousands of people there. Seems like an easy grab for a big plot of land.
He wants golden statues of himself in Gaza. He thinks the 49th parallel is an arbitrary line. The Panama canal is one of 4 presitegeous global pieces of infrastructure that his dementia addled brain can even recall.
He want big. He want thing people know. He want golden statue. He like 4 year old. He mad.
Trying to ascribe any meaning beyond that to his actions is like when people anthrpomorphise an insect as being embarrassed. We’re projecting meaning for which there just isn’t evidence to support, where there are simpler explanations to be had.
He is profoundly insecure, profoundly stupid, and profoundly petty. This provides sufficient explanation for everything he’s ever done.