WW3 warning as skilled warns Trump ‘sowing seeds’ of future battle across the globe
World War 3 fears are growing as a top Yale historian slams Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy, warning that his aggressive push for US dominance risks sparking dangerous new global conflicts
Fears that World War 3 might break out continue as US President Donald Trump’s aggressive “America First” foreign policy is worsening global conflict. A Yale historian has brutally slammed Trump’s administration for steering the world toward dangerous new rivalries and potential war.
Greg Grandin, a professor of history at Yale University, was highly critical of Trump’s administration, arguing that its foreign policy is “sowing seeds” of future conflict around the globe.
His criticism comes as earlier this month, the White House issued its National Security Strategy report which outlines a vision of US foreign policy that is unilateral, militaristic, and focused on American dominance, especially in the Western Hemisphere, while rejecting the internationalist approach of previous decades.
The US, the report warns, will no longer “shoulder forever global burdens” that have no direct connection to its “national interest”, the New York Times reported. The report also reportedly pledges to “reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American pre-eminence.”
In an article published by the New York Times, Professor Grandin argued that Trump is reviving an old American policy, the Monroe Doctrine, originally meant to keep European powers out of Latin America, and turning it into a tool for aggressive US dominance.
What started as a simple warning in the 1800s has been used by past presidents to justify military interventions and control over neighbouring countries, something Latin Americans came to see as blatant American interference.
“That the Trump administration would turn to this old diplomatic shibboleth to define its foreign policy philosophy make sense,” the historian stated. “As the world order breaks into competing spheres of influence, each regional power needs to get its hinterlands under control: Moscow in the former Soviet republics, among other places; Beijing in the South China Sea and beyond.”
He continued: “And the United States in Latin America. ‘If you’re focused on America and America First, you start with your own hemisphere,’ Secretary of State Marco Rubio said recently.
“And the Trump administration has, presiding in the last few months over a frenzy of activity, not just executing speedboat operatives alleged to be drug smugglers but also meddling in the internal politics of Brazil, Argentina and Honduras, issuing scattershot threats against Colombia and Mexico, menacing Cuba and Nicaragua, increasing its influence over the Panama Canal, and seizing an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.”
The professor pointed out that after the First World War, US nationalists fought to keep the country out of the League of Nations, insisting that joining would weaken America’s freedom to intervene in Latin America whenever it wanted.
The idea was so influential that even other countries, like Japan, Britain, and Nazi Germany, claimed their own versions of the Monroe Doctrine to justify their empires and invasions.
“Today, the Trump administration is sowing the same seeds,” Professor Grandin noted. He further shared: “Its ideal of a world organised around a multifront balance of power — with the United States pushing against China, pushing against Russia, sowing division in Europe, threatening Latin America, with all countries, everywhere, angling for advantage — means there will most likely be more confrontation, more brinkmanship, more war.”
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