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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social

This is how I wrote about it back in April for @liberalcurrents.com. If I had to write it again, I'd emphasize more generally his foreign policy aims are all about personal aggrandizement, which legitimates the fascist project the same way. Full essay here: www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-fasc...

Fascism’s core political project of national rebirth is highly congruent with foreign conquest because conquest demonstrates the nation’s restored greatness on the only stage where it can be performed: internationally. Though authoritarian governments certainly have a robust history of launching wars of aggression, that aggression need not play the same role in the politics of the regime. Military expansionism was a central element of both German and Italian fascisms since conquest—for Lebensraum in the German case and to inaugurate a new ‘Roman Empire’ in the Italian—was sold as the high road to each regime’s goal of restoring the humiliated nation to glory. Even if Trump takes no concrete military steps to realize his aggressive vision of an expanding nation, the constant rhetoric of it inscribes the requisite fascist image of a revitalized nation taking its proper place on the world stage into public discourse and the popular imagination. Trump’s ability to trick the media into covering meaningless spats with other countries as foreign policy triumphs suggests considerable latitude for spinning fictions of victory out of whole cloth. And of course, his administration has indeed taken costly diplomatic and economic steps toward this expansionist vision, with explicit public statements about the intention to coerce Canada via tariffs into accepting annexation, and threatening gestures against NATO ally Denmark, including an aggressive speech by JD Vance on Greenland soil.
aug 27, 2025, 6:35 pm • 20 5

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social

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aug 27, 2025, 6:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social

But Trump wants Greenland in particular because it is an obsession of Silicon Valley techbros. It's not just that he wants to expand territory. It matters which territory he fixates on. Trump made Ken Howery, a Peter Thiel friend, the ambassador to Denmark. That choice didn't come from nowhere.

aug 27, 2025, 7:17 pm • 6 1 • view
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juanrive 🇺🇦 @juanrive.bsky.social

He also wants Canada and Panama Canal

aug 27, 2025, 9:27 pm • 1 0 • view