Comment on Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America
wewbull@feddit.uk 1 week agoI think you’re under thinking this.
The primary focus of Trump since coming to office has been securing natural resources. Greenland, Canada, Ukraine all have rich mineral deposits. Even the Panama shit is about controlling a geographic “resource”…the canal.
This rename is about making it sound like it belongs to the US. What’s there a lot of here? Oil. And it sits under international waters.
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 week ago
The US already has a lot of rights to the oil there. but the rigs aren’t pumping because despite the drill, baby, drill crap US oil companies already have too much supply. He wants them to drill just to look like they’re doing more shit.