Donald Trump's new National Security Strategy [21] instates a "Trump Corollary [22]" to the Monroe Doctrine [23]. Like the Roosevelt Corollary [24] of 1904, which was used to justify the "gunboat diplomacy [25]" of that era, this new corollary openly calls for dividing the world into spheres of influence [26]—with the Western Hemisphere assigned to the US. Russia is obviously pleased as punch [27] over this, as it implicitly gives Moscow a free hand in Ukraine [28]—and Putin will likely consider this an acceptable pay-off for his betrayal of Venezuela [29]. However, China is less likely to surrendur its massive investments [30] and mega-projects [31] in Latin America in exchange for a free hand to take over Taiwan [32]. The document's text on Europe is even more sinister, revealing a white supremacist agenda [33] that looks not to Washington's traditional allies to counter Russia, but to the continent's Russian-backed far-right movements [34] to counter Washington's traditional allies. In Episode 308 of the CounterVortex podcast [35], Bill Weinberg exposes the NSS a further step toward consolidation of a Fascist World Order [36].
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