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The World Will Never Forget (or forgive) What the Trump Regime has Done

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Last night, while most people in Washington DC were asleep, Trump shared a post that had an AI-altered map with a US flag covering Canada, Venezuela and Greenland, depicting these nations as US territories.

In the photo, Trump can be seen sitting in a meeting with European leaders, including UK’s Keir Starmer, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, with the US map in the background. Just a few minutes later, he posted another AI generated meme showing him planting a US flag on Greenland.

While what is left of his MAGA cult snickers at Trump’s Hitlerian fever dreams, the rest of the world isn’t laughing. They understand that Trump is incapable of joking. He is only capable of mockery, ridicule and threats. But as his mental and physical health wane, he becomes more and more unhinged.

Only days ago, he sent a bizarre message to Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, which sounded more like it came from a grade school bully than a president. In it, he expressed frustration with Norway for not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, claiming that he no longer feels obligated to prioritize peace after not receiving it.

All of this happened after far-right, Venezuelan sycophant, Maria Corina Machado, gifted her Nobel prize to Trump in what amounted to one of the biggest suck-ups in the award’s history.

This week, as Danish and other European troops landed in Greenland, he announced plans to impose tariffs on Denmark and other nations if they continue to resist his acquisition efforts of the world’s biggest island (2,166,086 square kilometers).

Trump’s use of tariffs as a punishment will cause more pain for working class Americans than they will the nations he is targeting. American industry simply isn’t capable of producing all of the goods it is getting from trading partners. They will pay a hefty price thanks to Trump’s belligerence, as most of the world rapidly moves beyond US hegemony, signing trade deals and strategies well outside its orbit.

Of course, the Trump regime has no interest in what the people of Greenland want. Thousands flooded the streets of Nuuk, the capital, in the freezing cold of an arctic winter to reject Trump’s aggressive, imperialist ambitions. The whole country has only about 55,745 citizens, so this was a major event in its history.

And why would Greenlandic people want to be a part of the US when they have universal healthcare, free education and other social welfare policies? The US has none of those things. Why would any nation want to be a part of an empire in steep decline, one which is unleashing a reign of terror on its own people?

No matter what happens now, the world order has been forever altered. Alliances and trust between nations takes decades, sometimes centuries to build. But they can be decimated in just months or a few years. And this is where Trump has succeeded.

Even if he is voted out (a prospect that becomes more and more unlikely) or removed from power, the damage is done. This is because Trump isn’t the problem. He is the symptom. It took millions of Americans to put him into power and a cadre of fascists to prop him up. And even if Americans eventually move on, the rest of the world will never forget.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, January 2026

American Imperialism and its Hollow Culture of Mindless Consumerism Explained

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Imagine thinking that Cuba or Venezuela or Greenland would be better off if it had a McDonalds and a Walmart. But this is what American Representative Gimenez thinks about Cuba. And it is the crux of American imperialism. It is imposing a culture of consumerism on other nations. One which is completely in the grip of mega-corporations who produce banal, toxic, useless, disposable products and, of course, guns.

The arrogance of America is in thinking not only that the rest of the world views it as superior, but that the rest of the world wants their way of life. Most Americans who are fortunate to travel abroad, and who do so with a humble curiosity about the world and its peoples, are often shocked to find out how bad they have it at home.

They find cities that preserve history and that are designed for people rather than cars. They eat food that is not hyper-processed, mass produced and laced with chemicals and additives. They encounter people who aren’t rushing through a meal or talking endlessly about money and work. They watch families going to museums or parks or plays or concerts with their children without constantly looking at the time. They see how life can be without constantly worrying about paying for healthcare should they get sick or injured. And quite often, it makes them consider leaving the US for good.

Yet, this desire to impose a thoroughly inhuman and unhealthy way of life on the world persists in much of the populace. In the case of this post, a politician who was born in Cuba apparently thinks the island nation would be better off if it is carved up for wealthy corporations to exploit.

Empires throughout history have imprinted their culture on others through architecture, art, music, language and cuisine. In this regard, America is no different. Except that this culture is rooted solely in mindless consumerism. And it has little to offer the world outside of uninspiring, processed food, oversized cars, sweatshop made clothes and luxury items, and no time to enjoy life away from slavish employment at one of the corporations keeping them distracted and unhealthy.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, January 2026

The End of Pax Americana

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Trump: “Colombia’s very sick too, run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States. And he’s not going to be doing it very long. Let me tell you…He’s got cocaine mills and cocaine factories.”

Reporter: “So there will be an operation by the U.S. in Colombia?”

Trump: “It sounds good to me.”

The Trump regime is not finished. Not by a long shot. Its imperialistic rampage is targeting Columbia, Cuba, Mexico and Greenland. And if you think he will stop there, you haven’t been paying attention to his Hitlerian rants and the support he has received from his sniveling sycophants and even Democrat dolts like Debbie Wasserman Schultz and John Fetterman. Canada, I am looking at you.

Of course, what Trump is doing isn’t very different than any other project of the American Empire. Republican or Democratic, both arms of the empire do their part at the behest of its ruling class and their capital investments.

But Trump has ripped the veil off of the “Pax Americana” brand and showed it for what it really is. He has legitimized its gangsterism. And he is ramping it up to grab whatever is left for him and his wealthy friends on a planet that is on the brink of ecological devastation and climate chaos.

The American corporate media doesn’t know what to do with any of this, other than wring their hands about “legality” or worry about how it sounds rather than what it is. They are more concerned with preserving the old narrative of a benevolent and ethical, if not flawed, America, even though it is a complete lie.

And political leaders in Europe have demonstrated their complete subservience to American hegemony by couching their language in cautious “observatory” terminology. Except for Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who warned Trump to stop threatening the takeover of Greenland, which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark.

The latter is significant for several reasons, since Denmark is a member of NATO. Any attack on Greenland would be an attack on it, on NATO, and on Europe itself.

Trump’s actions are in keeping with American imperialistic aggression. The difference now is that under Trump its scope has expanded beyond the Global South to include white, Western nations as well. It is a clear signal that the old order of relations and allies is over.

But the Trump regime isn’t saving American Empire. On the contrary, he is stealing as much of the resources he can on behalf of its ruling class who know all too well that the party is almost over.

Even if Fox News flunkies believe that climate change is a hoax, they do not. Why else would they spend billions of dollars to suppress the science and silence the scientists? They know. They just care more about their wealth than they do about a livable biosphere. Because in some daft way, they think their wealth will insulate them.

And if the genocide in Gaza has taught us anything, it is that this class is thoroughly capable, without reservation, to annihilate anyone who might hamper their investments. Israel is, after all, one of the most important colonial assets of the American Empire. It has invested billions into what amounts to the biggest US military base in the world. They have shown us what they are more than willing to do or to justify. Only the willfully blind and toxically naive would not see that now.

We are entering a new phase of the resource wars. The old imperial houses and gangster capitalists are preparing to scrape up the last bits of fortune at our expense, even if that means burning it all to ash. Trump is merely accelerating that inferno.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, January 2026