Ignorance may be helpful to politicians who are intent on building their power. And it may be yet more useful when listeners don't know the background of people who make headlines in their efforts to dominate public service. But when government leaders are unaware or deliberately ignore the background of newsmakers, that ignorance -- or stupidity -- can lead to harsh violence, if not outright war.
Examples of "blissful" ignorance: Canada, an independent nation, also recognizes the king of Great Britain as chief of state. The Canadian prime minister is the head of that nation's government. Other nations have similar details, in that the chief of state and the head of government are separate. The USA gives both jobs to its president.
Greenland is also a self-governing, semi-independent nation, but it acknowledges that it is part of Denmark. And the Panama Canal Zone is fully part of the nation of Panama, and it always has been, even as the U.S. rented a stretch of land since about the year 1910 for a canal between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
So if the U.S. wants to take over those three independent nations, as Donald Trump proposes, it could lead to a full breakdown of commercial relationships, or even to a flat-out war.
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