Why Donald Trump’s expansionist projects are not so incongruous – Libération

On February 10, 2007, Vladimir Putin delivered a thunderous diatribe at the Munich security conference against the world order born from the collapse of the USSR, which he accused of only benefiting Westerners. Dumbfounded by the virulence of the words of the master of the Kremlin, the audience preferred to put their significance into perspective and move on to something else. Wasn’t Vladimir Putin in the twilight of his second and, it was thought at the time, last presidential term? It was in retrospect that Putin’s indictment of 2007 appeared for what it was: a declaration of war on the post-Cold War international security architecture.

Declaration which would soon be followed by effects. Donald Trump’s latest whim – who is only on the cusp of his second and, theoretically, last presidential term – is the desire to seize Greenland, Panama and