The Age Of Conquest and Empires Is Back

In the old days of empire, stealing, appropriating and incorporating other countries territories ....

The Assyrians Were Early Empire Builders 
And Set A Three Thousand Year Trend.

 .....  was a common and accepted political and military practise.

This wasn't just a European practice (just as slavery wasn't just Blacks shipped to the America's in the 19th century, but practised in all Muslim countries as well as Thailand, China and Japan etc at the same time), as white leftie apologist historians always suggest, but rather was a practice that had gone on since the Assyrians right up until the 1930's with Hitler taking Austria and Japan seizing Manchuria to add to its Korean land seizure in the previous century.

No one said too much about it at the end of the 19th century, and certainly didn't militarily stop it in the early 20th century, until Hitler seized Czechoslovakia and invaded Poland. However since the end of World War II and the formation of the United Nations in 1945 it was the civilised consensus that borders and states be recognised and respected. 

So for example Israel's seizure of lands in 1948, 1967 and 1973 were only partially recognised, and some of the 1967 and 1973 land gains were handed back. The West fought wars to defend South Korea in and the US supported jihadists to fight Russia in Afghanistan (wrongly in my opinion, but that's another story), and indeed have spent Billions of Dollars, Pounds and Euro's to help the Ukraine resist Russia's current attempt to conquer it. 

But under Donald Trump, the USA has now taken to routinely threatening to incorporate foreign lands into the USA, by force if necessary, as well as trying to force regime change in other nations across the globe.  Canada, and increasingly threateningly, the Danish territory of Greenland, have both been subject to Trump's wish to own all Western hemisphere lands North of the Mexican border.

South of the Mexican border regime change by coercion, or military force, have been threatened in Venezuela (where blockades and military force have already been exerted), but also in Colombia and Cuba, as well as the possibility of seizing the Panama canal. This is ignoring Iran, where Trump's concerns more closely align with other western countries (as well as close regional ally Isreal), and again force threatened.

If I was a Victorian politician such as Gladstone or Disraeli, I would see all this as just worthy Imperialism and Empire building and not unusual (apart from the weakness of the European powers of Britain, France and Germany). The scramble for colonies back in the late Victorian era is not much different from what's going on today .... Russia wants the Ukraine, China wants Taiwan and the South China Seas, the USA  wants Greenland, and a compliant South America in its Western Hemisphere hegemony.  

The Don-Roe Doctrine

All this aggression behaviour ignoring UN charter rules, makes the USA look more like Russia and China, rather than leaders of the free and democratic world. When I suggested that Trump would leave a very different world behind when he left office (if he left office), I didn't envisage the collapse of the world political and trade order and possibly NATO, with the USA going rogue to put its interests above everyone and everything, but that looks very much what's going to happen. 

European nations need to wake up and smell the coffee. Pacifism and cooperation in international relations, are now regarded as weakness in the new world that's being created (as evidenced by Trump and Vance's open contempt for Europe). Europe needs to remilitarise, and create economies that can support those forces without the USA (including intelligence capabilities such as satellites and over the horizon views etc), because our enemies may not always come from the East. Certainly the USA under Trump and Vance would very likely not support us militarily despite NATO membership rules, and may even (by the seizure of Greenland for example) be in conflict with us.

The age of conquest and empires is apparently back with a vengeance .... perhaps we gave up our empires far to easily 60 to 80 years ago, because the new empire builders are on the march as we enter the second quarter if the 21st century, and apparently respect no world order rules .... just military might.