Western commentators continue to express outrage about Trump’s latest international adventures: Nigeria, Venezuela and more particularly Ukraine and Greenland ( because they have ‘good white’ populations.
I was struck by an Australian Broadcasting analysis of 11th January 2026 which stated, without a hint of irony, that Trump had assaulted the ‘once enshrined concept of national sovereignty, overthrowing eight decades of rigidly enforced global order.
Obviously the analyst didnt understand the concept of history, or perhaps was born less than decade ago. The United States since its inception has been launching wars of extreme savagery and brutality ( something the Israelis seem to have inherited from them and the UK) . From the extermination of North American Indians, the Phillipines genocide in 1898, the many many wars in South America over the past 200 years to install compliant dictatorships, to the post second world war killing spree, with CIA endless covert murders across the world, the Korean War genocide, then on to the wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, there has most certainly not been 8 decades of peace because of the West’s global world order!! (or the ‘International Rule Based Order ‘ if you prefer (i.e. the US rules and you obey)
Trump’s attempts at a land-grab of Greenland, along with trying to plunder Venezuelan oil and supporting Israel’s imminent (second) war against Iran are simply just a continuation of America’s foreign (and internal) policy since its inception in 1792.
U.S. analysts decry Trump and his coterie for undermining democracy and freedom and not wanting to be an empire like the 19th century European powers, frequently quoting statements made by the U.S.’s founding fathers like Jefferson and Washington. Those analysts use the founding fathers statements and quotes from the American Constitution as proof that the US is essentially a ‘good’ nation.
What analysts in the US particularly object to about Trump and his thuggish entourage, is that they are saying the things that they have themselves always really believed in, OUT LOUD.
Perhaps those founding Fathers believed in the things they were saying, but the evidence suggests they were trying to create a country where the wealthy and landowning civilised ‘white’ (really pink) class could live in peace without threats from the uncivilised darker peoples of the world. And naturally, because those peoples were uncivilised it made perfect sense for the US military to treat them as sub-human.’Humanity’ was reserved for the white-skinned folks. Trump and his racist coterie and oligarchs are therefore, the continuation of a long lineage of theft and thuggery.
We should be careful though to emphasise that the other pink ‘ruling classes” of the world also subscribe to this obscene and absurd view. The EU ex head of EU ‘diplomacy’ Josep Borrell’s statement in 2022 that “Europe is a garden. Most of the rest of the world is a jungle. The jungle could invade the garden” is a classic example of this racist ignorant ideology.
Borrell seemed to have forgotten that the only reason Europe had had- up till then at least, been a ‘garden’ is because it had murdered and plundered its way through most of the global south over the past 500 years and used those resources to create Europe’s safe and pretty garden. Ironically, Europe now relies economically on the non-pink migrants it has brutally forced from their homelands for its cheap labour and maintaining its GDP.
Similarly and with great irony, what helped to make “America Great” in previous times was the enormous number of immigrants from ‘pink’ Europe.
Trump and his ‘administration’ are now attempting, with great lawless brutality, to cut off that very lifeblood of immigration to US simply because they are now the wrong colour. In Trump’s desperate attempt to ‘Make America White Again’, that cheap labour, which as of late 2025, made up approximately 19% of the total U.S. labour force, is now under threat, thus undermining the very basis of US agriculture and industry. One is reminded of Australia’s attempts for 50 years to to keep Australia ( besides the ‘sub-human’ indigenous aboriginal population) ‘safe’ for Europeans using their “White Australia” policies.
With the meteoric rise of China as a global economic power and its vastly superior research and industrial base, the West is under massive threat to its global dominance. China expands its opportunities for wealth, not through Western-style theft and subjugation, but through contracts and mutual agreements. The Belt and Road initiative is a classic example of this practice.
In theory the US and the West could realign their foreign policies to work alongside China and the Global South to develop cooperative and mutually beneficial trade, while reducing the threat of war.
This however does not seem to be an option for the US or the rest of the West. 500 years of exploitation and murder have paralysed Western decision-making and innovative thinking.
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