Entries by American Global Strategies

Debatable: Should the US make a play for Greenland?

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https://www.semafor.com/article/01/10/2025/debatable-should-the-us-make-a-play-for-greenland What’s at stake President-elect Donald Trump has openly talked in recent days about bringing Greenland under US control, refusing to rule out military or economic force to achieve that aim. His comments have touched off a global debate, with European politicians warning Trump against threatening the sovereignty of an autonomous Danish territory. Greenland occupies a strategically important position […]

Donald Trump says the Panama Canal should be American

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https://nationalinterest.org/feature/donald-trump-right-panama-canal-should-be-american-214240 President-elect Donald Trump’s recent lament that the United States ceded control of the Panama Canal to Panama under the Carter administration is both strategically sound and historically resonant. Trump, the most consequential conservative president since Ronald Reagan, shares with the Gipper both an instinctual understanding of U.S. national interests and, more specifically, a healthy skepticism about the logic […]

We Went to Greenland to Ask About a Trump Takeover

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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/10/nuuk-greenland-trump-denmark-00197070 The island’s rare earth minerals and plum Arctic position have turned it into a geopolitical hotspot and the object of American fantasies. NUUK, GREENLAND — At a recent Friday night kaffemik — a traditional, coffee-fueled gathering — Jørgen Boassen reclined at the end of a long table covered in bits of leftover whale skin and cake, wearing […]

Discussion about U.S.–Korea–Japan trilateralism under a second Trump administration

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https://keia.org/the-peninsula/the-prospect-for-us-korea-japan-trilateralism-in-a-second-trump-administration/ South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol called to congratulate Donald Trump shortly after the US presidential election, telling the president-elect that the first Trump administration had set the foundation for US-Korea-Japan trilateral cooperation. Yoon later told the press he expected cooperation “would proceed well even during the [second] Trump administration.” Although some of the personnel that Trump has […]

Chad Wolf criticizes Gitmo prisoner release as “totally reckless”

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Biden faces criticism for ‘totally reckless’ release of Gitmo prisoners: Another thing for Trump to ‘clean up’ Former White House National Security Council chief Alex Gray sounds off on President Biden’s release of 11 Guantanamo prisoners and analyzes President-elect Donald Trump’s foreign policy agenda on ‘America Reports.’