Claudio Fantini, an international analyst, analyzed the foreign policy and the first days of management of U.S. President Donald Trump.
In CNN Primera Mañana, he stated that “one of the most revealing and worrying points is what he is planning regarding geography. It is a geopolitical definition that must be taken seriously. It is extremely serious that he proposed changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of the United States and justifies it by mumbling that it is an injustice that Mexico named it.”
He explained that “that’s not the case, the Mexican state is later than the name of the Gulf of Mexico. It uses an indigenous language, from the native people of those lands, and a 16th-century cartographer named it.”
The analyst added that “the fact that Google changes the name of the Gulf of Mexico on Google Maps without consensus is grave. They cannot make the decision unilaterally; it must be done by the countries that have coasts on the Gulf, which are Mexico, the United States, and Cuba.”
In this regard, he considered that “things are not done the way Trump does them, as in the case of Greenland, where for the third time, the United States is asking Denmark to transfer it.”
He explained that “Trump says that Russia will take positions in the Arctic, and the U.S. needs positions in the Arctic, which is an indirect way of saying that it will leave NATO.”
Claudio Fantini affirmed that “behind this, there is a vision of geopolitics that considers Canada should be the 51st state or that it should take control of the Panama Canal, which is similar to Vladimir Putin’s vision but in the United States.”
In this sense, he concluded, “it all becomes very worrying. In four years, we’ll see if he accepts that he cannot run for re-election. When he lost the previous election, he didn’t accept the result and led a mob to the Capitol, which constitutes a coup d’état. Now, with more power than before and a darkly conservative Supreme Court, which he had already altered, he will have many more elements, with a majority in both chambers of Congress, to pursue a constitutional reform to impose his political project of liberal democracy, which I am not sure is at risk. His model is more about autocracy than liberal democracy.”