Trump, Putin, Xi and the new age of empire
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Have you heard of neoliberalism and neoconericism? Now welcome to the era of neuropperism.
Last month, Donald Trump’s iniquity address was his promise that the United States “once again will discuss a growing nation, which increases our wealth.”
I hope that Trump’s territorial expansion rumors are empty rhetorical blooms, faded. The presidency references to foreign territories that he would like to acquire is too frequent to be ignored or dismissed.
Trump confidently claims that America will “get Greenland.” He promised to “retract” the Panama canal. He often says Canada should become the 51st country of America. Last week he even insisted on gas.
His charm gained the area even some of his supporters. But Trump’s spacious ambitions are easier to understand if viewed as a World trendTwo other world leaders, who seem to be real peers, and Xi Jinping, as well as the Territorial Expansion, as part of their personal requirement on the majority.
Russian speakers often quote national security as an excuse for the Ukrainian war. But Putin returned to the idea that Ukraine is not a proper country, but part of the “Russian world”.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov immediately said that Putin heard before he invaded Ukraine Three consultants: “Ivan is terrible. Peter the Great. And Catherine Great. ” These leaders chaired the huge expanses of Russia’s territory, about which Catherine developed deeply to Ukraine.
Putin would clearly want to leave the historic stage, which reaffirmed Russian control over his heart of his old Empire, Ukraine and, perhaps to the west.
XI seems like Taiwan’s control as the key to China’s national destiny and its historical heritage. In his recent speech, he insisted. “Taiwan is the Holy Territory of China.”
XI has said that Taiwan’s issue can no longer be transferred to generation. China’s “reunification” will be a signature achievement that can allow him to demand the status of the founder of the People’s Republic Mao Zedong.
Recently, the empire’s interest in the empire has emerged. His consultants are struggling with his retrospective reconstructions in Greenland, Panama, and even in Gaza, a process that has become known as “Sanive”.
As with Putin, the preliminary application of Selewashers must reach a rooted explanation of national security. Greenland has critical minerals. The Chinese sink the Panama canal. But Canada? Gaza? Rational explanations here enables taps or even bites.
It is not convincing for the territorial ambitions of Trump, the apparent alternative explanation is that this is about personal majesty. If the Nobel Peace Prize is inexplicably unavailable, Trump could at least break at least next to Rushmore, expanding American Area.
The idea that the president simply wants to increase the square footage of America has become more likely after his now the infamous phone call With the Prime Minister of Denmark, Meinese Fredericsen. It is believed that he has more or less proposal that he may want to have a lack of dominion from Greenlandia. The United States could have more military grounds or rights around minerals. But he was not installed. He wanted Greenland.
Trump’s hopes to take on Canada or the Beast are still unclear. But the Panama canal and Greenland are more vulnerable. The US military will be overwhelming if they are deployed against Panamania or Dan.
The United States, Russia and China, who have men with extensive ambitions, are the consequences of the current international system. The world can move from the era, where small countries can demand the protection of international law, as, as thucydides put it on what they can do. “
Such a world can be compatible with the great powers of peace, based on the spheres of influence, on the western Hemisphere, which is focused on the United States, in Western Europe and Eastern Europe and China. During the 19th century, the great powers had even conferenced the world, such as the gathering of 1884-1885 in Berlin, which took place at the height of “Africa”.
But any such carving was typical of unstable. The great capacity of the 19th century was ultimately shattered by world wars of the 20th century.
Increasing imperialist ideologies also has consequences for domestic policy. The empires tend to have emperors. The external policy of Putin’s and XI expansion is a cult of household and political repression. Trump’s abroad ambitions are combined with strong concentration of “Enemy inside”.
Elon Musk, who makes a lot of crushing, says he thinks about the fate of the Roman Empire and has suggested that the United States has killed the state for its hundreds of opponents. Have you been warned.
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