The Trump administration’s focus with shipping lanes and maritime infrastructure has been most visible in the Western media on the Panama Canal and Greenland but is occurring elsewhere as well. Most indications are that the goal is to push back Chinese influence while cementing US naval dominance so as to be capable of enacting a global maritime blockade of China.
As is often the case with Trump, he is only saying more loudly what has been US policy for some time. The US has for years worked to sabotage China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The US Marines shifted their focus to sea control capabilities as part of an effort to maintain naval dominance over China. [1]
It’s a fairly short read and well worth it, it has some great charts showing US bases and the relevant shipping lanes and how they’ve positioned themselves. Great counter-evidence to anyone trying to sob to you about China trying to control the seas given how extensive this is.
And once again the Republicans may claim not to believe in climate change but their interest in Greenland clearly shows they know otherwise and are actively maneuvering to position US hegemony for the post-climate-change world.
Greenland and Iceland are of strategical importance to the US unrelated to the climate change, look up Monroe Doctrine
I don’t buy this at all. They’ve been European holdings since before that doctrine was established and right through it. The cartoons I’ve seen of Uncle Sam drawing a line along the ocean seem to exclude them and start off the east coast of the US, encircle the Caribbean and encircle South America.
Geographically many consider them part of Europe, certainly not part of North America in most maps.
Also US never really cared that much about Monroe Doctrine either. The British came and beat up on the Argentineans over the Falklands. US easily could have thrown up some ships in their way and said “fuck off” or otherwise attempted to dissuade them but didn’t care to. It’s never been an ironclad rule or commitment.
And as Europe has been in vassalage to the US since WW2 (well all the empire holding parts, certain parts only became vassals after the USSR was destroyed) it shouldn’t really matter.
It’s more the US just moving in on its vassals colonial holdings because of strategic importance and the fact they want to manage a choke-point like that directly with all the attendant power over the land and building whatever bases they want, bulldozing what they want, etc to meet whatever enlarged capabilities are desired and to fortify these places as necessary.
I think the U.S. allowed the Falklands conflict because Britain is one of the U.S.'s best allies and they share the same interests.
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No I just mean the part where they occupied Greenland for their interests
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