Maybe We're the Bad Guys': Chris Hayes Says the U.S. Is Acting Now Like an Axis Power'

"Trump has also said taking the territory is what I feel is psychologically needed for success. In a message to the prime minister of Norway, Trump raged against the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which declined to award him the Peace Prize he has long sought. The president cryptically claimed, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America."

"And to be real clear-eyed about this, and there's a lot of gauzy nostalgia here. That hegemony, that power that we have, has been abused egregiously in many circumstances in awful, bloody, and unforgivable ways, from Vietnam to Iraq and beyond. The host went on to say that, whatever the flaws of this order, it essentially functioned as a world war avoidance machine with the U.S. at the center And it's done a lot of bad things, but it has succeeded in that singular goal."

President Donald Trump has intensified rhetoric toward NATO allies and pursued an aggressive proposal to acquire Greenland, which Denmark and Greenland leaders reject as a nonstarter. The president framed possession of Greenland as necessary for U.S. national security and as psychologically needed for success, and criticized the Norwegian Nobel Committee while suggesting U.S. interests may now override pure peace considerations. Several NATO countries are conducting military exercises in Greenland under Operation Arctic Endurance. The post-World War II global order, centered on U.S. hegemony that prevented interstate war while also committing abuses from Vietnam to Iraq, now shows signs of deterioration as U.S. actions increasingly resemble those of past aggressor powers.

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