Provocative speeches about taking over territories deny that Trump’s politics are becoming more unconventional than before.
returning to the presidency of the United States Donald Trump’s the recent talks about the Panama Canal and Greenland give hints about what can be expected from his next season, experts say in ‘s morning.
Trump has dreamed of buying Denmark’s Greenland for the United States. He has also threatened to take over the Panama Canal.
Just a moment ago, Trump announced that he does not want to rule out the use of military force to achieve his goals.
Trump’s speeches should be taken seriously, says the professor of international politics Tuomas Forsberg from the University of Tampere.
– After all, these are unsettling speeches that indicate that Trump’s way of doing politics will be even less conventional than in his previous presidency.
In the future, Trump’s administration may have more room for wild and unconventional ideas that do not support Western cooperation or a rules-based world order, Forsberg estimates.
– Now there are no people in the administration who would control and try to keep Trump within the framework of a traditional policy, he says.
Not even allies are safe
Researcher at the Foreign Policy Institute Jyri Lavikainen describes both Trump’s character and his policies as “blackmail”.
– It suggests that he wants to arouse concern and fear in his opponent and hopes to get something through it.
According to Lavikainen, Trump may not realistically aim for Greenland or the Panama Canal. However, he wants something to turn the situation in the United States’ favor.
– The fact that this has been directed at Denmark shows that even our own alliance with the United States does not protect against this.
Trump’s speeches are guided by strategic and economic interests. Greenland is a militarily important region, and it also has a lot of rare natural resources.
– Surely Trump is at least thinking about whether the United States could get even better access to them. It wouldn’t require owning Greenland, Lavikainen says.
Greenland appeared in Trump’s speeches already in his previous presidential term.
– It is some kind of obsession for Trump, Tuomas Forsberg commented.