Aren't Trump's statements about other countries' territories a revival of classic imperialism?
Donald Trump's unusual order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of the Americas has drawn a harsh response from Mexico. After his inauguration, Trump signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico, which the Secretary of the Interior must implement within 30 days.
Donald Trump's unusual order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of the Americas has drawn a harsh response from Mexico. After his inauguration, Trump signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico, which the Secretary of the Interior must implement within 30 days.
According to Russia Today, this decision by Trump, which is unprecedented in the Americas, was met with a strong reaction from Mexico. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum stated that despite Trump's actions, the whole world knows the Gulf of Mexico by that name.
She noted: "He (Trump) calls it the Gulf of Mexico, but for us and for the whole world it remains the Gulf of Mexico." And Greenland Prime Minister Mott Agden, responding to Trump's statement that the island should be annexed to the United States, stated that the Danish autonomous territory wants to determine its own future and does not want to be American.
Trump's decision to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico, as well as his statements about buying Canada, Greenland, and Panama, once again revealed to the world the true attitude of the United States towards other countries, which looks down on everyone.
In the 21st century, despite global developments, the United States has the same imperialist view of other countries as it had in the 19th and 20th centuries. Washington is trying to change place names and take over a number of countries, proceeding exclusively from its own goals and interests and without taking into account international law. Of course, these actions of Trump will be met with a harsh reaction from the countries to which they are directed.