The crazy thing about this attempt to annex sovereign foreign territory is it's totally unnecessary. If the US wanted more bases on the island, it can already

The crazy thing about this attempt to annex sovereign foreign territory is it's totally unnecessary. If the US wanted more bases on the island, it can already do that. There are existing treaties. The US unilaterally closed many of its bases there, it could simply reopen then at any time. If it wanted to extract natural resources it could just pay for permission to do that. Any of the other things it's claiming top lan there could also be done without annexing foreign territory. This is about normalizing territorial expansionism to launder Russia's invasion of Ukraine.