How Donald Trump plans to build a new American empire

Donald Trump’s attempts to bring Greenland, the Panama Canal and even Canada under American rule are part of his plans for a new American empire, experts say.

The president-elect, upon returning to the White House, has signaled his intentions for an aggressive foreign policy, including tariffs on both Canada and Mexico.

Those aren’t his only plans for our neighbors to the north, as Trump has repeatedly posted on social media suggesting Canada become America’s “51st state.”

He has also fueled his desire for the United States to purchase Greenland and even take back control of the Panama Canal once in power.

‘World leaders are coming to the table en masse because President Trump is already fulfilling his promise to Make America Strong Again. When he officially comes to power, foreign nations will think twice before deposing our country, America will be respected again, and the whole world will be safer,” Trump spokesperson Anna Kelly said. Newsweek in a statement.

Professor Sean Adams, an expert on American history at the University of Florida, said Trump’s plans hark back to the ideas of Democrats 200 years ago, especially Andrew Jackson, a known favorite of Trump’s president.

“The plan to acquire Greenland is somewhat reminiscent of the 19th century, when many American politicians – especially Democrats – were quite aggressive about territorial expansion,” he said.

He adds that this policy was known as “spread-eagleism” and was an ideology designed to expand the American style of governance around the world, as the US bought and attempted to annex parts of Mexico and Alaska, now known as the Dominican Republic. to Greenland and Iceland.

‘The idea was [that] Republican government was America’s gift to the world, and it needed to be expanded as much as possible. The economic opportunities that the expansion brought were also a nice bonus.’

Adams calls Jackson-inspired imperialism “a dramatic departure” from the current establishment.

Daniel Immerwahr, a professor at Northwestern University and an expert on American imperialism, says that while Trump’s plans are a break from the current model, they may not resemble the colonialism of the past.

“It wouldn’t be difficult to see the hundreds of US military bases outside its borders as some kind of empire… But Trump is clearly more comfortable with an older form of power projection that harkens back to the bloody days of Teddy. Roosevelt,” he said.

In late November, Trump announced plans to impose a 25 percent tariff on Mexican and Canadian goods as long as the countries allow immigrants to flow across the U.S. border.

He also said he would impose an additional 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods over the Chinese government’s refusal to follow through on its promise to use the death penalty on drug dealers.

According to Trump, these actions would take place on the first day of his administration.

He said the Mexican and Canadian tariffs would apply to “ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculously open borders.”

“This tariff will remain in effect until drugs, especially Fentanyl, and all illegal aliens stop this invasion of our country!”

The president-elect also suggested that Mexico and Canada had “the absolute right and power to easily resolve this long-dormant problem” — signaling that he wanted neighboring countries to do more to secure their borders so that migrants don’t cross the border. United States could sneak in.

The president-elect has proposed a territorial expansion into Canada, Greenland and Panama in recent days, and has mocked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by calling him “governor.”

Over Christmas, Trump escalated his campaigns against the governments of both Panama and Canada.

“Merry Christmas to everyone, including the great soldiers of China, who lovingly, but illegally, operate the Panama Canal (where we lost 38,000 people in the building 110 years ago), always ensuring that the United States brings in billions of dollars. Dollars in “repair money,” but will have absolutely no say in “anything,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday.

“Also against Governor Justin Trudeau of Canada, whose state taxes are far too high, but if Canada were to become our 51st state, their taxes would be cut by more than 60%, their businesses would immediately double in size, and they would be militarily protected become like no other country anywhere in the world.

“The same goes for the people of Greenland, who need the United States for national security purposes and want the US to be there, and we will!”

Trump recently posted that “Canadians want Canada to be the 51st state” and offered an image of himself atop a mountain peak mapping the surrounding area next to a Canadian flag.

Trudeau has suggested that Trump was joking about his country’s annexation, but the pair recently met at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida to discuss Trump’s tariff threats.

Trump showed interest in purchasing Greenland, an autonomous region of Denmark, during his first presidential term.

He was publicly rebuffed by Danish authorities – who reiterated that the island was ‘open for business, not for sale’ – before any talks could take place.

The Danish Prime Minister’s Office said in its own statement that the government “looks forward to welcoming the new US ambassador.” And the government looks forward to working with the new administration.”

“In a complex security political situation such as the one we are currently experiencing, transatlantic cooperation is crucial,” the statement said. It noted that it had no comment on Greenland other than to say it is “not for sale but open to cooperation.”

Trump has renewed plans for Greenland after the president-elect suggested this weekend that the US could regain control of the Panama Canal if nothing is done to ease the rising shipping costs required to use the waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean connects.

Panama President José Raúl Mulino responded in a video that “every square meter of the canal belongs to Panama and will remain so,” but Trump fired back on his social media site: “We’ll see about that!”