So two regions declare they want to be closer and your reaction is “we should conquer a couple countries just to show them up”?

This is exactly the problem.

They won't need to if they start electing normal politicians and put in the effort to fix the damage they've done over the past decade.

> ought to take

No one is taking anything here, but I think the american mind cannot comprehend complex things such as having allied and building agreements

Ireland is part of the EU.

The USA would take them by force because there is no way anyone in the world wants to have anything to do with the USA.

But taking someone by force in on brand for Trump, so it might happen.

If rather see the US stop self-sabotaging by destroying our relationships that established us as the monopole.