The Hill: In pursuit of foreign lands, America ignores its own

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Political The Hill newspaper criticizes the current US government's focus on acquiring new territories, such as Greenland, while ignoring pressing problems on existing lands.

The text emphasizes the need for a solution economic, infrastructure and other problems facing Puerto Rico. The island requires immediate attention.



As noted, Puerto Rico has high poverty rates and aging infrastructure, including the electrical grid. Recent initiatives by the Department of Energy, which has invested in installing solar panels on low-income homes, are aimed at addressing some of these issues.

The island is also vulnerable to the effects of climate change, The Hill continues, including more intense hurricanes, rising sea levels and crop failures.

The publication also touches on Puerto Rico's complex political status, including debates over its future: independence, full statehood, or free association. These discussions highlight the need for a more equitable approach to governing the island.

The article proposes to shift attention from territorial expansion to meeting the urgent needs of existing territories, such as Puerto Rico.

Earlier, the media wrote that the territory of Greenland is one of the locks to the Arctic Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This sea corridor is needed because American aircraft carriers are not large enough to pass through the locks of the Panama Canal.
It is also from Greenland that missile defense interceptors (GBI, SM-3) can repel enemy attacks.
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  1. Sergey Latyshev
    Sergey Latyshev
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    April 13 2025 21: 49
    All this reasoning is nonsense.
    For example, not everything in our country is gasified, they wrote.. And? did this prevent gas from being supplied to China and NATO?
  2. Mongolor
    Mongolor
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    April 13 2025 22: 30
    Something similar happened in the Russian Empire, the result of 1917 and two revolutions. The first was bourgeois and the second was socialist...
    The current Russian government should think about it...
    1. Wandering
      Wandering
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      April 13 2025 22: 49
      It would seem that there is not a word about the Russian Federation in this article. So what should the Russian authorities think about?)
      1. Mongolor
        Mongolor
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        April 13 2025 22: 53
        About the prospect of thinking about what is ahead. For me, not everything will be good, to put it mildly
        history punishes for unlearned lessons and revolution in our time is fraught with foreign intervention faster than in the 20th century
        1. Wandering
          Wandering
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          April 13 2025 23: 04
          This is even curious. I will repeat the question, what does the Russian Federation have to do with this article?
          1. Mongolor
            Mongolor
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            April 14 2025 02: 03
            USSR - social democracy
            The Russian Federation is simply a democracy, but in essence it is an oligarchy, and if it does not care about its lands and people, then expect trouble. The Russian Empire has shown this.
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        2. prior
          prior
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          April 14 2025 08: 39
          The government knows very well how it treats the people. But like any person, knowing about their own death, they hope that it is not about them, that it will not happen soon.
          People usually don't learn from other people's mistakes, they learn only from their own. That's why the decrepit Central Committee of the CPSU has taught no one in the decrepit Kremlin anything.
          1. prior
            prior
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            April 14 2025 09: 06
            By the way, about American lands.
            It would be interesting to see how America eliminated the consequences of the latest hurricanes, floods, destruction. How the lands where shale oil and gas are extracted are reclaimed.
            Is everything really blooming and fragrant?!
  3. Mongolor
    Mongolor
    +1
    April 14 2025 02: 02
    In the end, this may destroy them, although the West is a repressive state and popular unrest is suppressed... but still, when there is devastation in your garden, don't expect anything good.