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Remember the Donald Trump in his first presidential term, who had not started any new wars? Don’t worry, it’s just a bad memory. The America of 2025 is going back to conquest.

A bad habit that never goes away

For a few days (really for a few days) the whole world had really believed that Donald Trump, by winning the election, would lead the world into an era of peace and prosperity, entering into relationship, not competition, with the other countries of the emerging multipolar world; there were even those who had believed that the U.S. government would return to dealing with the problems of Americans, which are by no means few and which demand solutions with some urgency if they are to avoid internal structural collapse; there were also those who had theorized a kind of “liberation” from globalism and its discards, bringing true politics back to the center and ensuring a rebirth of American geopolitics and international relations.

Sorry to disappoint all the well-wishers: Trump is a president of the United States of America and, as such, it appears that he wants to do what all American presidents have done to date, namely the war of global conquest.

Trump has not yet taken office in the White House and he has already threatened to destroy Iran, conquer Canada, expropriate Greenland and exploit land in the Arctic Circle, take Taiwan from China, annex Panama and change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, all while intimating Europe to raise military spending and imposing sanctions toward the East.

Meanwhile, his most trusted collaborator (or his master) Elon Musk is planning not only the transition to mass transhumanism but also the replacement of anyone who opposes U.S. government hegemony, both at home and abroad. All sweetened by concessions on freedom of the press and expression on his personal social media, making people believe that this is real freedom, when in fact it is an interactive colored cage.

Nothing short of a masterpiece.

Make America Mexico Again

It’s a matter of perspective.

Americans, the real ones, are not the Americans who came from the Old World, who were an accumulation of criminal outcasts sent away from overflowing prisons. The continent was not even called “America,” but cancel culture is something that started long before the advent of today’s globalism and the British, oops, Americans, really like it. Real Americans have been exterminated or decimated and locked up in reservations like endangered beasts. No one has asked them how they feel about “making America great again.” I wonder why…

Same with the Gulf of Mexico, which Trump would like to see become the Gulf of America. Geographically, is he proposing the disappearance or annexation of Mexico? He has not yet let us know via his personal Truth newsroom, but we have no doubt that doubt will soon be removed.

Brilliant in this regard was Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s response to Trump at a press conference last Wednesday: “Of course, the Gulf of Mexico is recognized by the United Nations, but why don’t we call it Mexican America? Since 1607, Apatzingán’s constitution was that of Mexican America. So let’s call it Mexican America. And the Gulf of Mexico, well, since 1607, it’s also internationally recognized,” and he added, ”I think President Trump was misinformed yesterday, with all due respect, because I think he was told that Felipe Calderón and García Luna still ruled in Mexico, but no, the people rule in Mexico.”

It would be interesting if Mexicans made the -legitimate- claims to get their “American” territories back, since they were there long before the British settlers. A pertinent motto could be Make America Mexico Again, as noted by journalist friend Pepe Escobar.

Teasing the Red Dragon

China and the United States could face a large-scale crisis in bilateral relations and the threat of military conflict , says a report by the Institute for World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (available from RIA Novosti).

The report’s authors point out that if by the end of the year Trump becomes convinced that economic pressure on China is unnecessary, he may try to up the ante by using the Taiwan issue.

A few days ago, Trump did not nominate neocon Elbridge Colby, China warrior, undersecretary of defense under neocon Pete Hegseth, Iran warrior.

Colby is one of the most deranged pro-war neocons, often mistaken as anti-interventionist for opposing wars with Russia and Iran, but only because he believes all efforts and resources should be spent on war with China.

He supports separatism in China’s island province of Taiwan, calling on the country’s administration to spend more on U.S. weapons and insists that chip maker TSMC should be destroyed rather than fall into the hands of “China” (Taiwan is also recognized by the U.S. as China).

Trump ran on a platform of drastic change, but he has built an administration committed to the iron continuity of the star-spangled imperialist expansionist agenda.

Teasing China continues to be one of the most passionate pastimes for the blond president, who already in 2016, under his first presidency, tightened his grip on the China issue in no small measure.

In this regard, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in his year-end interview with TASS said, “We do not speculate about the plans of the future U.S. administration; this is the work of political scientists. If we assess the overall situation in the region, it continues to deteriorate. The United States and its satellites declare their commitment to the principle of ‘one China,’ but insist on maintaining the status quo, which implies maintaining the current situation indefinitely.” And he added, “Meanwhile, the Americans take provocative actions in the Taiwan Strait, supply weapons to Taipei and develop a quasi-political dialogue with the country’s authorities. All this together undoubtedly contributes to the growth of separatist sentiments. These methods are very similar to those used in the past by the Americans to establish an anti-Russian foothold in Ukraine.”

Whether the U.S. will really be able to sustain a conventional conflict with China, we do not know exactly, but what is certain is that China has no intention of yielding under any circumstances to the Chinese unity doctrine and will not back down in the face of U.S. arrogance.

Iran giving no peace

Similarly is the case with Iran, a real thorn in the side for the Washington administration.

It is the only region in the Middle East that has remained outside U.S. control. There are no U.S.-based banks, no U.S. military bases, and no protection of U.S. political interest. In short, the “kingdom of evil.” Add to that the fact that they are anti-Zionist as well, and there you have the devil himself.

Trump cannot afford to disrupt the development of the Greater Israel project and the reconstruction of the Third Temple, for which he has long promoted the Abrahamic Accords.

Speaking to Fox News’ Mark Levin, Mike Waltz, the next U.S. national security adviser, claimed that “terrorists” have “infiltrated our borders” and stated that “[ISIS, al-Qaeda, Hamas] did not get the memo that the Biden administration decided the war on terror was over.” Waltz stressed that the Trump administration intends to “ensure the right posture abroad from a national security perspective.”

As part of a “broader, mid-term effort,” he discussed plans for an intergovernmental initiative to counter “radicalization” by monitoring “mosques, individuals, universities, professors-and you name it-that pose a threat to the United States and are radicalizing individuals to harm the United States.” In particular, he warned against individuals on student visas who engage in protests or radicalize others, stressing that they will be quickly deported.

He then added that the Trump administration plans to implement a complete philosophical and national security shift regarding Middle East policy, arguing that “the problems in the Middle East largely come from Tehran, not Tel Aviv.” Needless to say, he reiterated the administration’s commitment to support Israel. The administration’s priorities include aligning Israel with the Gulf Arab states to counter Iran, restoring maximum economic pressure on Iran and stopping the sale of Iranian oil.

In Waltz’s words, Trump’s enthusiasm for making “historic strides” in reducing long-standing conflicts in the Middle East, describing them as “getting smaller” through strategic diplomacy, comes through a relentless attack on the Houthis, whose decimation is part of the American agenda.

Touch me anything but my hegemony

Because, at the end of the day, the point is always the same: the rules-based order cannot be challenged. Those who do, sooner or later must be neutralized.

This is how Trump is ready to unleash global war and then lay the blame on a long series of scapegoats already identified in the international political bestiary. Of course, wherever possible, only proxy wars will be promoted, because it is always better to have someone else do the dirty work.

Facts in hand, thinking of Trump as a savior is misleading: he wants to save his interests and those of imperialist America, certainly not multipolar peace and a new world order.