Alarm mounted Monday over the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cGreater North America\u201d plan, a geopolitical blueprint for US imperial hegemony from Greenland to Guyana that\u2019s drawing comparisons with a messianic project being pushed by President Donald Trump\u2019s far-right allies and war partners in Israel.<\/p>\n
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth first unveiled<\/a> the plan earlier this month, telling reporters: \u201cTrump has drawn a new strategic map, from Greenland to the Gulf of America to the Panama Canal and its surrounding countries. At the Department of War we call this strategic map the Greater North America.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhy? Because every sovereign nation and territory north of the Equator, from Greenland to Ecuador and from Alaska to Guyana, is not part of the \u2018Global South,\u2019\u201d Hegseth added. \u201cIt is our immediate security perimeter in this great neighborhood that we all live in.\u201d<\/p>\n Graeme Garrard, a Canadian professor at Cardiff University in Wales, said<\/a> Monday on social media in response to Hegseth\u2019s comments: \u201cBy \u2018Greater North America\u2019 he means \u2018Greater United States. The US is now and has long been a menace and threat to the sovereignty and independence of its hemispheric neighbors.\u201d<\/p>\n