"Trump has a childlike fascination with the great power politics that predated the current world order, and his foreign policy is broadly centering on organizing the globe into three spheres of influence — American, Russian, and Chinese — in which the leading powers largely have free rein."
#Trump #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #domination #imperialism #PerformativeMasculinity #WorldPeace #Russia #China
/17
"The energy secretary of the United States of america now says that United States of America will control Venezuela's oil indefinitely. After little Marco Rubio on Saturday tried to clarify Donald Trump's remarks that, oh, no, no, we won't control Venezuela, Donald Trump comes out later and says, we're going to rent it, we're going to control it."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #Venezuela #oil #EconomicElites #imperialism #domination
/18
https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/the-inevitable-blowback-to-trumps
