imperialism
manifest destiny but make it mars and greenland
Trump stares at a map of Greenland like a toddler eyeing someone else’s toy and calls it foreign policy.
Donald Trump has decided that international law is for losers, declaring "I don’t need international law" and basically upgrading himself from president to new king emperor of the Western hemisphere. It’s the Donroe Doctrine: the hemisphere is his personal strip mall, available for looting by him and his loyal courtiers, because nothing says "rule of law" like announcing you’re above it.
Mira Kamdar, whose family history runs through Danish colonialism, British empire, and American "we’re totally the good guys" mythology, watches Trump resurrect imperialism with the subtlety of a wrecking ball. Her 95‑year‑old Indian father, a naturalized American who helped put a man on the moon, now fears ICE will roll into his care home and deport him from his wheelchair—because under Trump’s white‑supremacist manifest destiny, being brown is probable cause. Meanwhile, Greenland—already scarred by Danish colonial projects like forced sterilizations and child removals—gets to look forward to the day when US ICE units, finally on brand, show up in the Arctic to "protect" native people the way America always has.
Denmark’s own imperial past and its present "ghetto law" targeting dark‑skinned immigrants blend seamlessly into Trump’s vision: break the law to get rid of the wrong kind of people, then call it security. In other words, the old European empires are now the warm‑up act for Trump’s neo‑imperial cosplay, where the US trades in democracy talk for open plunder and racial hierarchy—and Europe’s far right is lining up to import the model. But sure, tell us again how this is all about sovereignty and not a reheated colonial project with worse branding.
Mira Kamdar, whose family history runs through Danish colonialism, British empire, and American "we’re totally the good guys" mythology, watches Trump resurrect imperialism with the subtlety of a wrecking ball. Her 95‑year‑old Indian father, a naturalized American who helped put a man on the moon, now fears ICE will roll into his care home and deport him from his wheelchair—because under Trump’s white‑supremacist manifest destiny, being brown is probable cause. Meanwhile, Greenland—already scarred by Danish colonial projects like forced sterilizations and child removals—gets to look forward to the day when US ICE units, finally on brand, show up in the Arctic to "protect" native people the way America always has.
Denmark’s own imperial past and its present "ghetto law" targeting dark‑skinned immigrants blend seamlessly into Trump’s vision: break the law to get rid of the wrong kind of people, then call it security. In other words, the old European empires are now the warm‑up act for Trump’s neo‑imperial cosplay, where the US trades in democracy talk for open plunder and racial hierarchy—and Europe’s far right is lining up to import the model. But sure, tell us again how this is all about sovereignty and not a reheated colonial project with worse branding.
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