Trump’s ‘Greater North America’ Is Fascist Geopolitics

Writing in Foreign Policy, Van Jackson argues the Trump administration's hemispheric posturing, from renaming Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’ to Commerce Secretary Lutnick's jabs about Alberta separatism, fits a pattern he traces to fascist Italy's imperial rhetoric of the 1930s. He cites Trump's claim that Canada ‘thinks they're a state, but they're not,’ an AI-edited Oval Office photo showing Cuba, Venezuela, Greenland and Canada as U.S. territory, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's description of a ‘Greater North America’ strategic map stretching from Greenland to the Panama Canal.

At a March conference in Florida, Hegseth addressed right-leaning Latin American officials from Argentina, Honduras, Ecuador and El Salvador, notably without Mexico or Brazil present, framing the hemisphere in civilizational terms. Jackson's piece situates this alongside the administration's threats toward Greenland and economic pressure on Canada as components of a single stated vision rather than isolated incidents.

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