"The question is, by what logic does Trump make his claim? He talks a lot about the Monroe doctrine, describes his foreign policy as its Trump corollary, but close watchers of Hamilton, the musical, will sniff out immediately that Trump is no heir to the doctrine's origins in the Federalist papers, which essentially wanted Europe to curtail its colonial ambitions and butt out of the Americas."
"The 2020s version is fixated with the western hemisphere, which Greenland is in, but Denmark is not. This is the basis for Miller's confident dismissal of centuries of Scandinavian relationships: the meridian says no. The US national security strategy published last November uses hemisphere incessantly, introducing the idea of non-hemispheric competitors, a phrase commentators have now taken up, as if it were a foundational idea in geopolitics, rather than some retro-imperialist garbage invented five minutes ago."
Donald Trump stated that the United States needs Greenland for defence and indicated interest in acquiring it. Adviser Stephen Miller questioned Denmark's territorial right to Greenland and argued Greenland should belong to the United States as the dominant NATO power. Katie Miller posted imagery suggesting US annexation. The rhetoric invokes the Monroe Doctrine and a hemispheric framing that treats non-hemispheric competitors as illegitimate. That framing dismisses centuries of Scandinavian relationships by privileging a western-hemisphere logic and has been characterised as a retro-imperialist justification for renewed US territorial ambition.
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