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Donald Trump says the Panama Canal should be American

January 11, 2025/in Foreign Policy Media Apperances/by American Global Strategies

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 […]

How Yoon’s martial law bid complicates U.S.–South Korea relations

January 11, 2025/in Foreign Policy Op Eds/by American Global Strategies

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — In late 2021, the wife of then-presidential candidate Yoon Suk Yeol appeared exasperated by several journalists she insisted were treating her husband unfairly. In a leaked phone call with a left-leaning reporter, Kim Keon-hee vowed to have “all of them” jailed if her husband won the presidency. The comment drew little […]

We Went to Greenland to Ask About a Trump Takeover

January 11, 2025/in Foreign Policy Media Apperances/by American Global Strategies

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

January 10, 2025/in Foreign Policy Media Apperances/by American Global Strategies

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 […]

Trump imagines U.S. sphere of influence from Panama to Greenland

January 8, 2025/in Foreign Policy Media Apperances/by American Global Strategies

President-elect sees overseas territory as vital to U.S. interests and suggests he isn’t bluffing in threats to take over allies

Donald Trump Is Right: The Panama Canal Should Be American

January 6, 2025/in Foreign Policy Op Eds/by American Global Strategies

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 […]

Discussion about Panama Canal dispute

January 2, 2025/in Foreign Policy Media Apperances/by American Global Strategies

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/where-the-panama-canal-quarrel-is-heading-6d88478d?mod=letterstoeditor_article_pos2 We shouldn’t assume that military force will be President Trump’s only option to rectify the calamitous decision of President Jimmy Carter and the U.S. Senate to relinquish U.S. control of the Panama Canal (“Will Trump Invade Panama?” Review & Outlook, Dec. 26). While the Carter administration excluded an arbitration provision from the treaties, essentially conceding that […]