Trump also undermined Denmark’s claim to Greenland, saying it was “very far away and really has nothing to do” with the island.

Well, except, you know … the whole Nordic/Viking settlements thing?

US simultaneously wants the world to depend on them while also treating them like second class Allies.

That’s a core principle of colonialism: The colony acts as a cheap resource provider and sales market for the colonizer at the same time while having no actual autonomy.

We also can see a similar dynamic in modern globalism where production facilities were moved to countries where labour is cheap. Which is the reason many people call globalism colonialism 2.0.