SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ is “new US territory”, Donald Trump said yesterday, posting a map making the point clear.

https://x.com/NuryVittachi/status/2089865167270277308

THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ is “new US territory”, Donald Trump said yesterday, posting a map making the point clear.

While some analysts suggested this might be a joke, others pointed out that both the US President and foreign minister Marco Rubio have made numerous territory-snatching claims entirely seriously—and acted upon them.
 
- The western hemisphere is “our hemisphere”, Rubio has said several times, indicating that the US considers all the countries of South America, plus Canada, to already belong to the US.

- Furthermore, the successful takeover of Venezuela confirmed that illegal US military-led expansionism is not a joke, but entirely real. 

- The White House has also openly said that it intends to take over Cuba, and has blockaded the island to make it happen in the near future.  (The US has controlled part of Cuba, Guantanamo Bay, for 24 years, as a place to hold prisoners without trial, beyond the reach of its own laws on human rights.) 

- Trump and Rubio pressured Panama to align with the US by getting rid of the Hong Kong people running its port terminals and the country complied.

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NO MORE TALKS
Furthermore, Trump’s map of the Strait of Hormuz as “new US territory” coincided with his statement that there would be no more negotiations to stop the US attack. 

"There are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled, with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Naval Blockade remains in full force and effect," Trump wrote on Truth Social yesterday.

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'ASIANS MUST NEVER RULE ASIA'
With statements like this, the US is leaning into its reputation as a nation above the law, ready to snatch control of any sovereign territory it desires, analysts said. The US has conducted more than 100 regime change operations around the world, academic studies show.

In particular, US foreign policy since the time of George F Kennan in 1948 has said that Asians must never rule Asia, with the US needing to act to remain in charge of the entire region. 

At the moment, several US-controlled powers (including Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines and Australia) have been commissioned to act as Washington proxies to ensure US dominance over the peoples of Asia-Pacific.

Their strategy is to portray China as a US-style aggressive military expansionist nation, but few people believe it.
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