It’s pretty obvious there are three major powers now, carving up the world between them. Russia, USA and China. Russia has made its bid for Europe, China wants Taiwan, and the South China Sea, and USA wants the American continent. This is not to say they will all be invading in the old fashion, for Russia it will be enough to have the EU dissolved and make Europe’s individual counties vassals of the Russian empire. USA wants Greenland, and wants resources from South America – as we are seeing now, both Venezuela, the Panama Canal, Greenland, and indeed Canada are being threatened to some extent. China wants to dominate the sea around it and it wants to finally take over Taiwan and assimilate it like it did with Hong Kong.
The world is being divided into three spheres of influence and power – the only thing that stood in the way of this was a free, democratic USA, and that ship has sailed now with the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 and the MAGA movement.
steve_ample on
At surface level, they are saying the US wants to control countries in the continent of South America. At a more abstract level – and I’m not fully sure that a subtext was intended – but that they are switching to a continental power mindset. That is, power is defined by primarily land mass occupied and controlled. This is in contrast to a maritime control mindset, which is defined by trade, relationships, alliances, diplomacy, and common and rational self-interests.
The US model in the past has always been pretty maritime. But this simpleton-driven, hypotestosterone-compensating, intellectually noncurious knuckledragging tools in power can only think in continental terms. Hence the bullshit over Venezuela, Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal – it’s not limited to the continent of South America. Another continental mindset regime like Russia’s would approve at some level.
Low-Flounder-7020 on
Geopolitics never really sleeps.
Arrrchitect on
Maduro is the aggressor who is oppressing the Venezuelan people. He is staying in power illegally after losing the last election. Maduro is an illegitimate dictator who has no right to rule.
WakandaNowAndThen on
Continental? Hemispheric
rennat19 on
The US is a cartoon villain.
Dazzling-Leave-7448 on
For sure
Dazzling-Leave-7448 on
What they haven’t thought about is that all three will also step on each other’s toes and ultimately they will want to overpower each other. Human nature.
mephjeff on
The Confederacy planned to start invading south after winning the Civil War. Guess they haven’t given up on that dream
Every time the US talks about “rules-based order,” it somehow doesn’t apply to sanctions, blockades, or regime change attempts. Funny how international law only matters when someone else breaks it.
plague042 on
And here I thought it was solely for oil.
TemporalCash531 on
One cannot avoid noticing the mental split in Pro-Putinists/Anti-Americans in how they condemn (rightfully) US actions in the Caribbean Sea after years of justifying and condoning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
For some people ideologies are more important than thinking straight and condemning imperialism in any form.
shibaninja on
Ironic how Venezuela wanted to invade Guyana via Brazil.. Or was that too many news cycles ago?
steveycip on
I can promise the world, the citizens of the US want nothing to do with this shit.
nizhaabwii on
A “someone” is just mad because someone else was better at stealing an election than their last failed attempt.
skeptical-speculator on
I’m sure that “Annex Venezuela” was polling a very close second to “build the wall and make Mexico pay for it.” The outcomes of those policies are virtually indistinguishable from the other.
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It’s pretty obvious there are three major powers now, carving up the world between them. Russia, USA and China. Russia has made its bid for Europe, China wants Taiwan, and the South China Sea, and USA wants the American continent. This is not to say they will all be invading in the old fashion, for Russia it will be enough to have the EU dissolved and make Europe’s individual counties vassals of the Russian empire. USA wants Greenland, and wants resources from South America – as we are seeing now, both Venezuela, the Panama Canal, Greenland, and indeed Canada are being threatened to some extent. China wants to dominate the sea around it and it wants to finally take over Taiwan and assimilate it like it did with Hong Kong.
The world is being divided into three spheres of influence and power – the only thing that stood in the way of this was a free, democratic USA, and that ship has sailed now with the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 and the MAGA movement.
At surface level, they are saying the US wants to control countries in the continent of South America. At a more abstract level – and I’m not fully sure that a subtext was intended – but that they are switching to a continental power mindset. That is, power is defined by primarily land mass occupied and controlled. This is in contrast to a maritime control mindset, which is defined by trade, relationships, alliances, diplomacy, and common and rational self-interests.
The US model in the past has always been pretty maritime. But this simpleton-driven, hypotestosterone-compensating, intellectually noncurious knuckledragging tools in power can only think in continental terms. Hence the bullshit over Venezuela, Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal – it’s not limited to the continent of South America. Another continental mindset regime like Russia’s would approve at some level.
Geopolitics never really sleeps.
Maduro is the aggressor who is oppressing the Venezuelan people. He is staying in power illegally after losing the last election. Maduro is an illegitimate dictator who has no right to rule.
Continental? Hemispheric
The US is a cartoon villain.
For sure
What they haven’t thought about is that all three will also step on each other’s toes and ultimately they will want to overpower each other. Human nature.
The Confederacy planned to start invading south after winning the Civil War. Guess they haven’t given up on that dream
https://www.mentalfloss.com/history/civil-war/confederacys-plan-conquer-latin-america
Every time the US talks about “rules-based order,” it somehow doesn’t apply to sanctions, blockades, or regime change attempts. Funny how international law only matters when someone else breaks it.
And here I thought it was solely for oil.
One cannot avoid noticing the mental split in Pro-Putinists/Anti-Americans in how they condemn (rightfully) US actions in the Caribbean Sea after years of justifying and condoning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
For some people ideologies are more important than thinking straight and condemning imperialism in any form.
Ironic how Venezuela wanted to invade Guyana via Brazil.. Or was that too many news cycles ago?
I can promise the world, the citizens of the US want nothing to do with this shit.
A “someone” is just mad because someone else was better at stealing an election than their last failed attempt.
I’m sure that “Annex Venezuela” was polling a very close second to “build the wall and make Mexico pay for it.” The outcomes of those policies are virtually indistinguishable from the other.