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When a loyal ally can be squeezed over land inside its own territory, collective defence starts to look like an open protection racket.
Juan Orlando Hernández’s escape from legal accountability at home and abroad point to the larger challenges of democracy building under the shadow of US power.
Now as then, the US supported forces that wanted to change the political situation in Venezuela.
In the one-sided Mexican-American War, the US seized over 55% of Mexico’s land – including what today is California, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and parts of other states.
Beijing may benefit from the US retreat from international norms and a vision of a world split into ‘sphere of influence.’
America’s new and aggressive geopoitical stance is becoming more clear – and Nato is worried.
Successful American action in Venezuela and threats against Greenland suggest the rules-based international order that emerged following the Second World War is now on life support.
The US intervention in Venezuela makes it clear NZ’s ‘softly softly’ foreign policy isn’t a feasible long-term response to a shifting world order.
President Donald Trump has said the US will ‘run’ Venezuela until a ‘safe, proper and judicious transition’ can take place. But that still leaves many options.
The Trump administration is reviving the Monroe Doctrine for Latin America. The aim: keeping China out and securing oil and resources for itself.
A US military buildup in the Caribbean after weeks of naval strikes is both the latest case of intervention in Latin America and uniquely aggressive in key ways.
Africa needs a new strategy to engage with the more complex global order.
Donald Trump’s threat to take back control of the Panama Canal harks back to decades of US intervention in Latin America.
Donald Trump has history on his side when he muses about the US acquiring Greenland. That idea was proposed by military brass in a memorandum almost 70 years ago.
Unfounded claims by Donald Trump and JD Vance about Haitian immigrants ignore the role of the US in their plight. Many of Haiti’s problems can be traced to debt forced upon it by the US and France.
Much like the history of the US, Joel Roberts Poinsett, after whom the poinsettia is named, had a complicated and troubling history.
A western ‘do as I say, not as I do’ approach has helped provoke Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
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