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fromAxios
2 weeks ago

From "America First" to "Manifest Destiny": MAGA eyes foreign expansion

But reframed as hemispheric dominance, the right's expansionist impulse fits a civilizational worldview: America as the enforcer of the West, bending weaker nations to its will. What they're saying: In the days after President Trump's stunning capture of Nicolás Maduro, even some of MAGA's loudest non-interventionists began casting strategic lands in America's hemisphere - including Colombia, Cuba and Greenland. "How can you get more 'America First' than Manifest Destiny 2.0?" "War Room" host Steve Bannon told NBC News.
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fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

The Early Days of American Imperialism

Mark Twain used a satirical rewrite of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to expose American hypocrisy in overseas imperialism and the Philippines war.
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