Trump’s Territorial Ambitions Send Tremors Beyond the Western Hemisphere

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Trump’s Territorial Ambitions Send Tremors Beyond the Western Hemisphere

In his first month back in the White House, US President Donald Trump has unleashed a torrent of aggressive rhetoric that has reawakened the spectre of America’s territorial conquest by coercive power. He has not ruled out the use of military force to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal, floated the audacious idea of “absorbing” Canada and signalled that he would “take over” the Gaza Strip as a “big real estate site”. These brazen statements – …