Trump security doctrine, Monroe 2.0?

 IS TRUMP CONSIDERING A NEW GLOBAL SECURITY PACT?

ACKNOWLEDGING AREAS OF INFLUENCE

One must wonder what is behind Trump's references to Greenland, the Panama Canal and now Mexico being run by the drug cartels. If indicates that Trump may be envisioning a new security arrangement that would have the United States focusing on North America and the waters in that orbit. It would possibly be an awareness of the limits of U.S. power to control the world.

Trump has also voiced his opposition to Russian and Chinese warships in adjacent U.S. waters, does that mean that some sort of arrangement could be made to set up recognized areas of influence. Would the U.S. be willing to stop sailing warships through the straits of Taiwan and the south China sea. Would the Pacific west of Hawaii, the east coast of Russia, the Black sea and the Baltic Sea be void of U.S. warships. 

If the citizens of Greenland could have a referendum to become part of the United States, would that apply to Russian oblasts that are now considered inside Ukraine's borders.

As of yet, it is unclear where all of this going, but the reality is that the United States is not likely to be able to afford troops stationed in over 100 counties and be involved in controlling every part of the globe.  It could mend its financial insolvency and enhance its security if it focused on the security of its own neighborhood, essentially North America.

While no one is suggesting that the United States is going to withdraw inside its North America fortress, the reality is that the U.S. is at war with Russia, over NATO expansion, is threatening war with China and is debating attacking Iran, that is recipe for disaster on a global scale. How can the world step back from this precipice of global disaster?

Those who still believe that it possible to control world events with U.S. military power are living in a delusional past. I suspect that all of the major powers of the world recognize that some new arrangement is going to be necessary to avoid catastrophe. It will require a recognition and respect for the security concerns of all and a willingness to cooperate and co-exist for mutual prosperity.