Donald Trump's new National Security Strategy [24] instates a "Trump Corollary [25]" to the Monroe Doctrine [26]. Like the Roosevelt Corollary [27] of 1904, which was used to justify the "gunboat diplomacy [28]" of that era, this new corollary openly calls for dividing the world into spheres of influence [29]—with the Western Hemisphere assigned to the US. Russia is obviously pleased as punch [30] over this, as it implicitly gives Moscow a free hand [31] in Ukraine [32]—and Putin will likely consider this an acceptable pay-off for his betrayal of Venezuela [33]. However, China is less likely to surrender its massive investments [34] and mega-projects [35] in Latin America in exchange for a free hand to take over Taiwan [36]. The document's text on Europe is even more sinister, revealing a white supremacist agenda [37] that looks not to Washington's traditional allies to counter Russia, but to the continent's Russian-backed far-right movements [38] to counter Washington's traditional allies. In Episode 308 [39] of the CounterVortex podcast [40], Bill Weinberg exposes the NSS as a further step toward consolidation of a Fascist World Order [41].
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