If Trump really cared about his ‘favourite’ US president, he would leave Gaza and Greenland alone | Simon Jenkins

DOnald Trump The favorite American president He was William McKinley. Who is he? In his opening speech, Trump pledged to restore the name Mount Mountain to the highest peak in North America. It was an anti -survival pits in Barack Obama, who gave him the original Alaska name Dinali. But why is this paganism?

The answer has become clear since then. McKinley was the president (1897-1901) I entered the super winters In his first year in office to protect post -carbon manufacturers in the United States. Some were high to 57 %, and it was seen as collecting alternative donations for income tax. McKinley has also appealed to Trump to head the founding of a hesitant American empire outside the continent of North America, from which it has been retracted since then. Regardless, the man was uncommon, intelligent and unfairly polite, Trump is clearly ready to tolerance. His only neglect was his six -month assassination in his second term.

Trump has starkly sought to imitate McCainley’s policies in the past two weeks. Therefore, it is worth studying what his hero has already done. Unlike Trump, McKinley confirmed that his tariff was Congress approved by. In fact, the constitution after that required – It is still technically. It has been certain that it should be on the basis of treaties that adopt the reciprocity. It should be treaties.

In this event, the customs tariff was not seen as decisive in economic recovery. Also, the ladder is 25 % in the cost of living. McKinley lost enthusiasm for them and instead became the world free trade champion. It has formed a group of countries to pursue an open door policy, aimed at strengthening trade with China. He never seen the definitions of tactical weapons of foreign policy, and Trump’s description of his commercial partners was not used as “terrible”.

As for the search for new colonies, historians consider McKinley at best an accidental imperialism. A year after a tariff in 1897, the United States faced effective Collapse From the Spanish Empire, with armed rebellions in Cuba and the Philippines. Like many Americans, McKinley welcomed the arrival of new and free states. But he was against their help in wars against Spain. for him A quotation he was martyred a lot That was “the war should not enter until every peace agency failed.” He saw the civil war, and he never wanted to see another truth.

However, it was under pressure. This was a time when European countries reach their imperial borders. It was an opportunity for the United States to spread its wings, and many McKinley’s colleagues were keen to challenge. Over the course of 1898, war fever against Spain became hysterical. Hurst and Pletser newspapers daily Intervention In the Caribbean and Pacific Sea region. Congress, which rains the petitions, rains that McKinley declares the war on Spain.

He did this under protest. Infection Assistant naval secretaryThe young Teddy Roosevelt had already mobilized the navy, with its goal in Cuba and the Philippines. Then Roosevelt officially resigned his position and led a volunteer regiment to fight in Cuba amid a propaganda fire. He was McKinley accused There is no more than the spine than Eclair.

These interventions did not result from any threat to American lands or sovereignty. The actions of the aggression were naked. They were amazingly eggs by the Rudiard Kepling poem, The burden of the white manTreated to the Philippines and published in New York Sun. America has challenged the responsibility for the British Empire, to fight “brutal peace wars” against “Sloth and Heathen Folly”.

McKinley was all the time besides negotiation and peace. The Spanish war ended in a treaty signed in Paris in December 1898, which waived America, the measures of control of CubaPortorico, Guam and the Philippines. McKinley agreed with an anti -Empire in Congress, and the United States changed, as soon as it calms down, to deny any.The intention of exercising sovereignty, specialization or controlThe government of the islands must leave its people. Was Hawai?To prevent falling in the hands of Japan.

At the assassination of McKinley in 1901, Roosevelt did not leave the one who took control of these areas, and did not leave them in the twentieth century. It was also Roosevelt who supported the rebels in seizing Panama from Colombia and giving US control of the channel’s construction and immunization. This was very controversial. Roosevelt faced a challenge in Congress and New York Times for “The act of strong conquestIf Trump is seeking to simulate a former president, it is certain that he is described as “Bronco” of American imperialism – he should be worshiped.

Almost every president comes to his position that confirms if not isolation, then he refused to commit money or resources to put the world on the rights. However, all the strength of the office and the language of the founding fathers are lured. They come to see the “clear fate” of the United States as the lining of freedom and democracy wherever it is threatened. From Woodro Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt, from JFK to Johnson, father and Abangi, they all came to see themselves global crusaders for this issue.

In 2016, Trump described a refreshing way to intervene from his predecessors as “The total catastropheHe grabbed his hero and avoids the deployment of forces completely during his first term. The world knows at least where he stands.

Its focus is repeated on the status of America’s interests first in 2024. But this time it is not certain. In his opening speech, he described his mission as “the expansion of our lands … and carries our knowledge to new and beautiful horizons.” He even used the phrase fall, A clear fateAs one of them “will continue … in the stars … to plant stars and stripes on Mars.” Not satisfied with Mars, he put his eyes on Panama, Greenland and Gaza.

These lands may not coincide with Kipling or Rosevelt aspirations, but the current intentions of Trump are hardly the Pacific Ocean. If he wants to support McKinley, he may first seek to learn more about him.

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