Imperialist Fantasy - Historian Greg Grandin on Trump Threat to Retake Panama Canal, Invade Mexico

Imperialist Fantasy - Historian Greg Grandin on Trump Threat to Retake Panama Canal, Invade Mexico

Dec. 27, 2024

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Donald Trump has set his sights on the Americas, threatening to retake the Panama Canal if Panama doesn't lower fees for U.S. ships. The United States controlled the waterway until 1977, when President Jimmy Carter signed a landmark treaty to give Panama control of the canal.

Trump has also recently floated the idea of annexing Canada, and even a possible "soft invasion" of Mexico. Pulitzer Prize-winning Yale historian Greg Grandin explains the practical impossibilities of such plans but analyzes the political impacts of Trump's statements.

"There's no way the United States is going to fill out greater America. This is red meat for the Trump base," says Grandin. "It's classic Trump."

Greg Grandin, is an American historian and author. He is a professor of history at Yale University. He previously taught at New York University. He is author of several books, including Fordlândia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History, as well as for the National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award.

America, América: A New History of the New World
https://www.amazon.com/America-Am%C3%A9rica-New-History-World/dp/059383125X

The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
https://www.amazon.com/End-Myth-Frontier-Border-America/dp/1250214858

Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic
https://www.amazon.com/Empires-Workshop-Updated-Expanded-Imperial/dp/1250753295

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