Former U.S. President Donald Trump will be back in office in a few short weeks.
前美国总统唐纳德·特朗普将在短短几周内重新上任。
And if you haven't heard, he has spent the last few days outlining a mind map of sorts, to, as he says, "Make Canada the 51st American state".
你可能还没有听说过,他在过去的几天里勾勒出了一幅他大脑中的地图,如他所说,“要让加拿大成为美国的第51个州”。
Essentially, an annexation project.
本质上,这就是一个吞并工程。
He's referred to the border separating Canada and the U.S. as an "artificial line", referred to Justin Trudeau as "Canada's governor", and said "Canada would dissolve without U.S. assistance".
特朗普称分隔加拿大和美国的边界线是一条“人为的分界线”,还称贾斯汀·特鲁多为“加拿大州长”,并表示“如果没有美国的帮助,加拿大将会解体”。
"But why are we supporting a country, 200 billion-plus a year?
“但我们为什么要每年投入2000多亿美元支持一个国家?
Our military is at their disposal, all of these other things. They should be a state. That's what I told Trudeau when he came down.
我们的军队服务于他们,还有其他的事情。他们应该是一个州。特鲁多来的时候我也是这么跟他说的。
I said, what would happen if we didn't do it? He said Canada would dissolve."
我说,如果我们不这么做会怎么样?他说加拿大会解体。”
At the same time, he's not ruling out forcibly incorporating the territory of Greenland, which is currently under the dominion of Denmark, into the U.S.
此外,特朗普也不排除强行将格陵兰岛纳入美国版图的可能性,格陵兰岛目前由丹麦统治。
Same goes for the crucial shipping route, the Panama Canal.
同样的情况还有至关重要的航运路线--巴拿马运河。
"Canada," he says, "would be subject to economic force."
特朗普表示,“加拿大将受制于经济力量。”
With the famously unpredictable and rule-breaking Trump, it can be hard to distinguish between meaningless bluster and what actually might be possible.
特朗普是出了名的不可预测和不按常规出牌,所以很难分清是毫无意义的口出狂言,还是真正可能发生的事情。