By Katie Hettinga
Trump’s incursion into Venezuela last week added a military angle to what is shaping up to be the president’s signature commercial policy: Oligarchs first, not America first.
Trump’s so-called ‘Donroe Doctrine’ is a transparently corporate-profit-snatch-and-grab use of the U.S. government’s official powers. The White House now has plans to control oil production in Venezuela indefinitely, and Trump is obsessed with a forced acquisition of Greenland —possibly to own the country’s rare earth minerals, given the U.S. government already has broad access and a large military base there.
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Originally published in The Economic Populist — a project of the American Economic Liberties Project.