Banana Republic Foreign Policy
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When I make my points that the Trump administration is trying to recreate the Gilded Age rather than Nazi Germany, one of the areas where this most makes sense is the foreign policy. This gangster shit he’s pulling on Ukraine is really nothing that the Americans didn’t do to Honduras and Guatemala in the fruit imperialism era. I mean, check this out and just replace Ukraine with Honduras.
Bessent: "We make money if the Ukrainian people make money. I believe w/the US, our know-how, our businesses willing to come in & provide capital, we can accelerate the Ukrainian growth trajectory & take in substantial monies for US taxpayers & get the Ukrainian economy on a great growth trajectory"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM
It didn’t take the U.S. long after 1898 to realize that direct imperialism wasn’t worth the trouble. Rather, gangster imperialism did most of the work for a fraction of the responsibility. Splitting the world up among the “great powers” is also a callback to this era. This is how Trump and “friends” see the world. And this is how they are approaching Ukraine, forcing Zelensky to hand over the future of Ukraine for at best the vaguest promises from the U.S. to protect the country.