I don't understand why so many people are bewildered by Trump going for Venezuela and Greenland and Canada and Cuba and Mexico and Colombia, etc.

This has literally been the plot of the elites for the better part of a century.

Orwell wrote about it in 1949 as "Oceania".

1930s Technocracy Incorporated (scientific dictatorship), of which Elon Musk's grandfather was a member, planned for a supranational (globalist) EU-style American Technate (North American Union).

They likely first created the EU as the prototype given the opportunity they had in the aftermath of WWII. It is a known fact that the CIA and US State Department (alongside European globalist networks) financed 50+% of European integration.

Is it any mystery then, the Borg-like project to replicate the model to the rest of the planet? The EU is financing and advising policy and standards for the African Union and Southeast Asian Union and South American Union (e.g. UNASUR). Putin is also promoting the Eurasian Union.

It's all coming together swimmingly. Ultimately, the endgame is a world federation. Given its algocratic nature (e.g. censorship, omniveillance, technofeudalism), one can assume the world government will be totalitarian.