The Hill's Missing Chapters: Reheating Trump-Era Scrutiny While Ignoring Empire's Global Menu
📰 THE STORY: The provided link, unfortunately, leads to a CAPTCHA-protected page from The Hill, preventing direct access to the full article content. However, the context of 'How Trump is testing his power entering Year 2' suggests a focus on the internal political maneuvers and challenges faced by a former (or potentially future) president within the U.S. political system. This narrative
typically centers on personality, partisan struggles, and domestic policy implications, often framed through the lens of individual political strength and influence. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The obsession with a single leader's 'power' often obscures the enduring, bipartisan nature of U.S. imperial foreign policy, regardless of who occupies the Oval Office. For example,
the idea of 'acquiring' Greenland, floated by Trump, is not a novel concept. Denmark sold the Danish West Indies (now the U.S. Virgin Islands) to the U.S. in 1917, purely for strategic military purposes. This reflects a long-standing U.S. pattern of projecting power and securing strategic resources globally, stretching back to the 'manifest destiny' doctrine, the 1898 Spanish-American War, and the
carving up of Latin America through CIA-backed coups like Guatemala in 1954 for United Fruit Company interests, or Chile in 1973. It's about access and control, not just a whimsical presidential idea. Double Standard: When a U.S. president explores 'buying' or asserting influence over resource-rich, sovereign or semi-sovereign territories, it's framed as either a strategic negotiation or an