在唐纳德·特朗普首次担任总统期间，许多“反特朗普”保守派批评他是一个未能理解美国在全球政治中领导作用重要性的“孤立主义者”。然而，据民主党内部人士、比尔·克林顿和希拉里·克林顿的前顾问西德尼·布卢门撒尔在《卫报评论文章》中的说法，特朗普重返白宫后采取了明显更具干预性的方针。

布卢门撒尔认为，特朗普的“帝国主义”正在让美国变得更弱，而不是更强。他将特朗普主义描述为“帝国主义的最低阶段”，并援引特朗普据《华盛顿邮报》报道向紫花苜蓿俱乐部成员发表的言论：“It’s never been my intention to make Greenland the 51st state. I want to make Canada the 51st state. Greenland will be the 52nd state. Venezuela can be 53rd.”

布卢门撒尔写道：“Trump’s imperialism of piracy and plunder is less of a system even than that of the earliest imperialism of 17th Century privateers raiding the Spanish Main, the divine right of kings, and monarchs dividing up the spoils as favors to create their lords and earls,”以及：“His schemes of aggrandizement operating by threat and force are justified by no larger rationale, nothing as exalted as ‘the white man’s burden’ marauding wherever and however he can to seize resources. Describing his actions as some version of colonialism grants him a more orderly and coherent method than he possesses.”

布卢门撒尔补充称，特朗普的“掠夺与维多利亚女王时期高度组织化的英国帝国治理没有丝毫相似之处”。他写道，特朗普的掠夺行为意在扰乱二战后以及殖民帝国瓦解后形成的长期国际贸易、法律与合作体系，而特朗普将这些安排视为阻碍自身利益和权力的障碍。

布卢门撒尔表示，委内瑞拉“成为特朗普海盗式冒险的模板”。他回忆称：“after swooping in on 3 January to capture its strongman, Nicolás Maduro, Trump promised a transition to democratic elections and that the U.S. would play a custodial role over Venezuelan oil for the benefit of its people.”

布卢门撒尔写道：“Not long after Trump grabbed Maduro, he declared he needed to acquire Greenland and threatened a tariff war against Denmark and European allies to ‘get Greenland, including right, title and ownership’ … A month later, he bombed Iran,”

布卢门撒尔称，特朗普认为自己“全能且无所不知”，但与此同时却在破坏与加拿大及其他重要美国盟友之间的关系。他写道：“When the world isn’t pliable,”以及：“he must resort to greater force to reassure himself that the world acknowledges his self-image. The more he meets resistance to his fixed idea, the more pressure he must exert. He finds himself in a vicious cycle. His power hemorrhages, U.S. power dissipates and he spins in a whirlpool.”

原始来源：https://www.alternet.org/trump-iran-canada-greenland/