The mask is off. Under the Trump administration, the Republican Party has now officially made the transition from neo-liberalism to neo-colonialism.
In a jaw-dropping CNN appearance, Trump consigliere and unofficial Minister of Evil Stephen Miller openly declared that the United States has the “right” to take Greenland — by force if necessary — because no one would dare fight back. Not because it’s legal. Not because it’s moral. But because America is stronger.
That’s it. That’s the entire argument.
“We live in a world governed by strength,” Miller smugly told Jake Tapper, brushing aside international law, national sovereignty, and America’s own treaty obligations as mere “international niceties.” In other words, the Trump administration has decided to emulate the “might makes right” ethos of Vladimir Putin and is done pretending otherwise.
Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark and a NATO ally, suddenly finds itself on the Trump administration’s imperial wish list. Never mind that seizing Greenland would detonate NATO itself, whose founding principle is that an attack on one member is an attack on all. Miller’s logic is simpler and darker — no one will stop us, so why not?
But apparently, Greenland is just the appetizer for the ravenous imperial appetite of Trump and his band of international war criminals.
Miller also boasted that the United States is now “running Venezuela” after a U.S. raid seized President Nicolás Maduro and his wife — a move condemned by allies and denounced by the United Nations as a severe violation of international law. According to Miller, the U.S. can control a nation of 28 million people simply by strangling its economy, blocking its oil sales, and deciding who’s allowed to do business.
“We set the terms and conditions,” he said, as if describing a hostile corporate takeover instead of a sovereign country.
In a reaction to the authoritarian extremist’s declaration, Sen. Bernie Sanders didn’t mince words: Miller had just delivered “a very good definition of imperialism.” He’s right. This is textbook empire-building — the open embrace of domination, resource extraction, and military coercion dressed up as “national interest.”
What’s chilling isn’t just that Miller said these things. It’s that he said them confidently, casually, as if this worldview is now standard operating procedure. Trump has already mused about using the military to take Greenland. He’s been explicit about wanting Venezuela’s oil. And his top aide is now publicly laying the ideological groundwork.
This isn’t strength. It’s authoritarian fantasy.
America once claimed to stand for democracy, self-determination, and the rule of law. Under Trump and Miller, those ideals are being replaced with a blunt message to the world: we’ll take what we want, because we can.
And if that doesn’t alarm you, it should.
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