Trump's Plan for Greater America

During the pandemic, globalism got a bad name, for good reason.

Controlled by the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum, the UN and Bill Gates, run by bureaucrats who resonated to tyranny and control freaks addicted to censorship, global elites did everything they could do erase national sovereignty and embrace a one-world order. It sparked a backlash of nationalism — from France to Ireland to Argentina — and the re-election of Donald J. Trump.

Giving a master class in how to use military power and economic persuasion for political ends, President Trump is now reordering the world again.

This time, Trump’s new world order revolves around a coalition of the willing, with America at its center, fueled by shared interests and economic incentives.

Trump has been crafting his vision for a New Greater America for a long time.

In his first term, he negotiated the Abraham Accords, which re-established diplomatic relations between Israel and its moderate Arab neighbors.

In his second, little more than two weeks after the inauguration, he met with Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu in the Oval Office. He talked of the US takeingover the Gaza Strip, saying “We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs. Level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings. Level it out. Create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area.” Cue the media outrage. I thought Bibi looked a little chagrined too, perhaps wondering about Israel’s sovereignty.

In May, four months after being sworn into office, Trump made a whirlwind trip to the Arab Middle East, but not Israel. He was treated like a rock star. Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman offered major arms deals (including a reported $142 billion package), and announcements of hundreds of billions in Saudi investments into the U.S. Qatar came with big aviation deals (e.g., a massive Boeing order for Qatar Airways worth around $96 billion), and other economic pacts totaling over a trillion in commitments. And the stop in United Arab Emirates featured AI and tech including a huge data center project and investments worth up to $1.4 trillion.

Then in September, with Netanyahu at his side, Trump unveiled his 20-point plan to end the war between Israel and Gaza., including a Board of Peace he would chair. And in January, he launched his Board of Peace with a $1 billion buy-in for extended membership. Among the members: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Morocco. Not invited to join: Iran. US “allies” UK, France, and Canada all dragged their feet.

“Long before Trump launched Operation Epic Fury, he stitched up all of Iran’s neighbors, entangling them in a web of economic and investment deals, trade agreements, and, to top it all off, their memberships in the Board of Peace,” wrote Jeff Childers of Substack’s Coffee & Covid. “If you ever wondered why every single Middle Eastern country aligned with the US in the conflict against Iran— this is why … The Art of the Deal, applied to geopolitics.”

With Iran failing to fully open Strait of Homuz, Saudi Arabia is talking about building a pipeline to neuter Tehran’s control over the free flow of oil, and China is panicking.

With the State Department talking about drawing troops down from Europe, NATO Secretary Mark Rutte is warning Europe it is in danger of becoming an afterthought.

As Great Britain’s TV anchor Alex Armstrong put it, “Look who’s got the upper hand all of a sudden. America is now controlling vast swathes of oil that China needs. And suddenly its entire energy supply depends on American goodwill.” British PM Keir Stammer unceremoniously ended the “special relationship” between the US and the UK by withholding military resources for the Iran War, with serious consequences.

And all of a sudden, Trump’s vision of a Greater America — stretching from Greenland to the Panama Canal, including Venezuela and perhaps Cuba — comes into view. Greenland? You think he’s forgotten? Posted this week:

Never underestimate a brilliant chess player. TAW.