Why Trump Is Talking About Taking Greenland
Trump’s Greenland ambitions, along with the Venezuela intervention, represent a newly assertive and unilateral turn in American policy — one that prioritizes territorial control and strategic leverage over alliances and international norms. If pushed beyond rhetoric into action, this could reshape global diplomacy, fracture long-standing alliances like NATO, and trigger a more fragmented and competitive international order.
U.S.–Venezuela Conflict
The real reason behind escalating U.S. aggression toward Venezuela is neither Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarianism nor cocaine trafficking nor electoral legitimacy.
It is about the survival of the U.S. dollar itself.
At the center of this conflict lies a 50-year-old financial architecture that has sustained American global dominance since the Cold War: the petrodollar system. Venezuela did not merely challenge U.S. policy. It challenged the monetary foundation of American power.
Why Trump Is Talking About Taking Greenland
Trump’s Greenland ambitions, along with the Venezuela intervention, represent a newly assertive and unilateral turn in American policy — one that prioritizes territorial control and strategic leverage over alliances and international norms. If pushed beyond rhetoric into action, this could reshape global diplomacy, fracture long-standing alliances like NATO, and trigger a more fragmented and competitive international order.
U.S.–Venezuela Conflict
The real reason behind escalating U.S. aggression toward Venezuela is neither Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarianism nor cocaine trafficking nor electoral legitimacy.
It is about the survival of the U.S. dollar itself.
At the center of this conflict lies a 50-year-old financial architecture that has sustained American global dominance since the Cold War: the petrodollar system. Venezuela did not merely challenge U.S. policy. It challenged the monetary foundation of American power.