While Donald Trump’s supporters falsely claim he is an “isolationist”, he is threatening to colonize the Panama Canal, annex Canada, and seize Greenland (and its rare earth elements). The Trump team also plans to invade Mexico, bomb Iran, and wage proxy war on China. Ben Norton explains.
Topics
0:00 Trump’s warmongering foreign-policy record
1:35 Trump threatens Panama, Greenland, Canada
2:59 Colonial Christmas threat
3:49 Trump followers revive Manifest Destiny
4:41 Top Pentagon official invokes Monroe Doctrine
5:42 US interventions are not jokes
6:32 Seizing the Panama Canal
8:45 Elon Musk backs colonialism in Latin America
10:29 China defends Panama’s sovereignty
11:44 US colonial Monroe Doctrine
13:29 History of US imperialism in Panama
16:07 Panamanian revolutionary Omar Torrijos
18:03 CIA and Manuel Noriega
19:10 US invasion of Panama in 1989
20:20 Trump wants Greenland’s rare-earth minerals
22:37 Annexing Canada
23:51 Pro-Trump influencers promote colonialism
26:08 Plans to invade Mexico
27:56 Bombing Iran
28:50 Cold war on China
30:30 DOGE will cut social programs, not military
31:51 Cabinet full of billionaire oligarchs
32:27 Bipartisan imperialism
34:19 Outro