Trump reveals foreign policy of annexation and global conquest

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : "Trump declared at his press conference, "Europe is in for a tiny fraction of the money that we're in now. ...
52% : "Confirming this assessment, Trump declared in his press conference, "China's running the Panama Canal."
51% : Now that he is about to assume the presidency, Trump is making clear the true aims of his administration, which will be devoted to war-making on an unprecedented scale.
45% : Trump is seeking to shore up America's power base in its near abroad, which is seen as essential for projecting power against American imperialism's principal rival: China.Canada and Greenland, with their significant mineral resources, energy deposits and access to Arctic seaways, are critical to this effort, as is the Panama Canal, a central choke point between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
43% : Trump is declaring that the era in which the operations of US militarism will be bound by any legal constraints or the fig leaf of "international law" is over.
42% : The FT reported that Trump will "demand NATO member states increase defense spending to 5 percent of GDP, but plans to continue supplying military aid to Ukraine.
41% : When asked whether he would consider using "military coercion" to annex Panama and Greenland, Trump replied that he would, adding, "We need them for economic security."Asked by a reporter to explain his earlier references to Canada as the "fifty-first state," Trump doubled down on his annexationist threats, pleading to "get rid of that artificially drawn line" between Canada and the US.
38% : "Trump presents his policy toward Europe in the form of a protection racket, in which the global war against Russia and China is the framework for squeezing tribute from United States's "allies," who are increasingly being treated as vassal states.
35% : "We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America," Trump said.
33% : But Trump is dispensing with any altruistic or defensive pretenses for the operations of American imperialism.
33% : "Trump likewise confirmed the report published in the Financial Times in December that his threats to cut off military aid to Ukraine are based on an effort to have the United States' NATO allies double their military spending.
19% : Trump also refused to rule out a full-scale US attack on Iran and threatened war throughout the Middle East unless the Palestinians give up resistance to Israel, saying, "All hell will break out.
12% : "During the election, Trump appealed to popular opposition to the Ukraine war, accusing Biden of starting "World War III" and highlighting the massive decline in workers' living standards amid a spiraling cost-of-living crisis intensified by the wars against Russia and in the Middle East.

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