But reframed as hemispheric dominance, the right's expansionist impulse fits a civilizational worldview: America as the enforcer of the West, bending weaker nations to its will. What they're saying: In the days after President Trump's stunning capture of Nicolás Maduro, even some of MAGA's loudest non-interventionists began casting strategic lands in America's hemisphere - including Colombia, Cuba and Greenland. "How can you get more 'America First' than Manifest Destiny 2.0?" "War Room" host Steve Bannon told NBC News.
The Ukrainian leader said that Kyiv's partner intelligence services had also noted the moves by Beijing and Moscow to ramp up their cooperation in the military-industrial sector, adding he had instructed Ukraine's foreign intelligence service to monitor the cooperation more substantively for how it related to Ukraine's and its Western allies' interests. Global security must not be undermined because Russia's appetite for aggression remains unabated, he said.