“Stephen Miller, a top aide to President Trump, asserted on Monday that Greenland rightfully belonged to the United States and that the Trump administration could seize the semiautonomous Danish territory if it wanted.

“Nobody’s going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland,” Mr. Miller told Jake Tapper, the CNN host, after being asked repeatedly whether he would rule out using military force.

The remarks were part of a vocal push by Mr. Miller, long a powerful behind-the-scenes player in Trump administration policy, to justify American imperialism and a vision for a new world order in which the United States could freely overthrow national governments and take foreign territory and resources so long as it was in the national interest.

“We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he said. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.””

#USFascism #USImperialism #GeoPol #Greenland
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/politics/stephen-miller-greenland-venezuela.html

“Stephen Miller, a top aide to President Trump, asserted on Monday that Greenland rightfully belonged to the United States and that the Trump administration could seize the semiautonomous Danish territory if it wanted.

“Nobody’s going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland,” Mr. Miller told Jake Tapper, the CNN host, after being asked repeatedly whether he would rule out using military force.

The remarks were part of a vocal push by Mr. Miller, long a powerful behind-the-scenes player in Trump administration policy, to justify American imperialism and a vision for a new world order in which the United States could freely overthrow national governments and take foreign territory and resources so long as it was in the national interest.

“We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he said. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.””

#USFascism #USImperialism #GeoPol #Greenland
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/politics/stephen-miller-greenland-venezuela.html

Os leo y creo que se está magnificando (y sobrevalorando) la importancia del petróleo en esto. Recordemos que #EEUU hace años que logró la autosuficiencia en hidrocarburos, no necesita el petróleo de #Venezuela. Y sí, esto no quiere decir que #EstadosUnidos vaya a renunciar al petróleo, el petróleo venezolano corre a raudales y es de un tipo específico, muy pesado, para el cual Estados Unidos tiene tecnología adaptada para su refinado y comercialización (recordemos que comercia ya con él). Demasiado tentador. Habrá que ver, después de esto, a qué acuerdos se llega con el nuevo Gobierno en cuanto a contratos por el petróleo.

Y sí, ya lo he dicho aquí varias veces, #Trump reconoció abiertamente que de lo que más se arrepentía de su primer mandato era de no haberse quedado con el petróleo de Venezuela, pero recordemos que el objetivo personal primero de Trump en este mandato es el Nobel de la Paz, no el petróleo venezolano. Y esa es la principal motivación de la agresión (esa, y la recuperación del dominio del continente).

Que el petróleo es un caramelo suculento y también está en la mira, sí. Pero yo no descartaría que, si se consigue la destrucción del régimen chavista y la restauración de la democracia en Venezuela, Trump se conforme con eso y si acaso algunos contratos ventajosos.

Que es verdad que EE.UU. nunca (o casi nunca) ha atacado a un país sin una contraprestación, normalmente en recursos, pero el EE.UU. de Trump no es el EE.UU. de siempre.

#geopolitics #geopolítica #GeoPol