As the world shifts toward multipolarity, the idea of regional hegemony resurfaces, raising questions about the future balance of power and the role of nations like the United States, China, and Russia in shaping global dynamics.
Multipolar – How Multi?
There has been a great deal of talk about the emerging multipolar world the past few years. The growing power of the so-called BRICS partnership has implications we are still trying to come to grips with. And now, a new American administration seems headed toward an unheard of era of isolationism. However, as ridiculous or outlandish as recent Trump assertions about chunks of Canada, Greenland, and perhaps all of Latin America becoming American – well, the ideas are not crazy. Those who remember the Monroe Doctrine from school will understand my assertions here.
The Monroe Doctrine was the Central American grand strategy of the 20th century. Unfortunately for Americans and the world, the plan was convoluted, expanded, and transformed into a vampirish hegemony that has almost ruined us all. The original doctrine held that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers is a potentially hostile act against the United States. The original document was written by John Quincy Adams in the wake of the War of 1812. The section cited below reveals a deeper meaning to Mr. Trump’s most recent comments about potential annexations.
“The occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.”
Fast-forward to 2025, and we find Germany and France warning Donald Trump against taking Greenland after the US president-elect refused to rule out using military force to seize Denmark’s autonomous territory. Like most of you, I am wondering what exactly the EU or Europe as a whole plan to do if America seizes anything. Americans will be banned from visiting the Eiffel Tower? Or, will beer drinkers and hellraisers from my country be thrown out at Octoberfest in Munich? Oh, I know, Volkswagen will stop exporting cars for Americans to drive! Dear God.
The Logic of Spheres
All jokes aside, the reality of today’s world is multipolarity, but the weight of key nations in each region will certainly dictate policy, and even society for large swaths of humanity. Isn’t it easy to imagine China leading Asia, Russia trading and developing Eastern Europe and large parts of Africa? Can anyone else out there see India spreading out to act in the Middle Eastern and African stage? How about South Africa and new founded ideas once the BRICS coalesce? Or, will crazy Israelis manage to create some strange alliance in that region? One thing seems certain, Europe is going to be the last region standing when the music stops. That is, if Donald Trump’s new plan is a much bigger and more self-aware America.
Think about it. I mean really think. How do you negate the need for a border wall? What is the answer to a multiplicity of problems (cost and loss) people in the Americas have felt the past few decades? Was it all Vladimir Putin’s fault, or was Putin leading by example? The America, Asia, Africa, the entire Russian steppe, and the feeble tourist trap of Europe each relegated to its logical future legacy. If each can get along peacefully, maybe a world like Trump sees is Utopia!
Well, my original concept was about what was good for my country. America’s overseas plays since the end of WW2 never could have been sustained. What we perpetrated was a Hollywood version of old world imperialism. It was, in reality, extremely narrow-minded. What we should have been doing all along was finding a new cohesive bond for the big island that North and South America represent. Had we done so, America would and her neighbors would have been rich beyond imagination. Interestingly, the same holds true for China’s and Russia’s traditional spheres of influence.
If we consider broader outcomes, Donald Trump’s naming of key Latin Americanists to top positions on his national security team tell us a bigger game is afoot. CNN and the Zionist-controlled Western media consider Donald Trump’s notions about Canada, Greenland, and Panama as “threats.” In reality, these ideas are potentially game-changing business offers for all participants. Think on this. Would it benefit both the United States and Venezuela to be in one bloc of cooperation? What would gas prices be in America if part or all of Canada were part of Greater America? Of, think about the vast sums my country would save by not propping up NATO, invading far off lands, and waging economic war on Russia, China, Iran, and a host of other nations. And what about those other nations?
Regional Identities Extant
Imagine Russia playing fairly with her natural neighbours in Hungary, Romania, Greece, and even Poland. Why even the Germans would benefit even if their country is to become what her future under the Morgenthau Plan would have been. Many agreed at the end of WW2 that Germany should be transformed into one big cow pasture. Today, as we watch the French and German leadership squirm, one has to wonder if most of the European countries would not do better to be farms with travel agencies on every corner of every town. Isn’t this what Europe is anyhow? A travel destination pretending to be the epitome of Western Civilization and industrialisation? I live in Greece, and I do not see any of my neighbours who would shun country life today. Sure, many Greeks long to be Americans and to be discovered in Hollywood, but the rational ones miss the simpler life.
Throw in China running what China has almost always led, and the wider picture of four or five poles instead of one grows clearer. Does China need more than Asia? Would Asian trade with these other regions profit the people of Malaysia, Mongolia, and Manchuria equally? Maybe not, but business does seek a kind of harmony, no? Maybe Africa should run Africa a bit like the deceased Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi envisioned. Perhaps it has always been the Germans, French, and the Zionists trying to divide the world up differently. Perhaps the “plan” was always to prevent the logical evolution of world politics. Like it or not, the natural evolution of world politics will be toward regional hegemony. Author John Mearsheimer has already discussed this in his book, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. Regional powers dictate the polarity of a large regional area in the same way I am discussing here. When Russia’s or China’s leadership talk about multipolarism, they do not mean 195 poles.
Anyway, as an American, I do not see a downside to taking over Greenland, Canada, Central or South America one way or another. And by “takeover”, I do not mean bombing La Paz or Toronto into a heap of rubble, either. Leave the genocide to the one murdering Palestinian babies. I am talking about asking the people of nations like Mexico to be part of something grander. No, I am not talking about NAFTA and the Clintons putting more slaves to work for American industrialists. I am talking about “Americans” in a more cohesive sense. Was my crazy idea from forty years ago that crazy?
It seems like I may not be the only lunatic studying the geopolitical map.
Phil Butler, is a policy investigator and analyst, a political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe, he’s an author of the recent bestseller “Putin’s Praetorians” and other books
