https://www.newindianexpress.com/business/2025/Jan/12/grappling-with-donald-trumps-new-imperialism
As the world awaits with trepidation for Donald Trump’s second presidency, allies and foes alike are aghast at his threat to redraw the map of the Western Hemisphere. Trump’s outrageous moves to ‘buy out’ Greenland, or to take over the Panama Canal is not just about making ‘Making America Great Again’; it is about reviving neo-colonialism. We thought imperialism was dead and gone. With Trump, it is back with a vengeance!
To make his aggressive, warlike foreign policy sound sensible, the external enemy has been identified. It is China, Iran and Russia – in that order – who are portrayed as seeking domination. Thus, the US has to take the battle to new frontiers. This has been the logic of dictators and tyrants through the ages – from Genghis Khan to Adolf Hitler – and it is being played out again.
There is little chance the future is going to unravel the way Donald Trump wants. Canada is not going to become the 51st state of the United States; and Greenland will not be bought by Trump. What is happening though is a rising climate of fear and a coming Cold War. Trump is aware of the limitations of this new frontier policy, but what he hopes to do is to solidify the MAGA ranks, and stoke up a new aggressive ‘American’ patriotism even if it means riding roughshod over the national sentiments of other nations. It is a dangerous policy in the long run. It will earn Donald Trump more enemies and it will make an unstable world even more unstable.
What the press ignores, with its chronic TDS, is that Trump's expansionism is a response to Russia and China, especially China. China has been pushing its expansionism for a couple of days. Ask the Japanese, Koreans and Philipines about that. Bottom line - two major world powers are working to take over control of strategic and resource-rich territories and if the US doesn't expand first, it will be in a vulnerable position.
ReplyDeleteWow all resource rich countries are threatened by Russia China or Trump.
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