Written by Tyler Durden
Written by Andrew Korybko via substack,
Colombia's president Gustavo Petro thought he would balance unstable relations with his returning American counterpart, abruptly dismiss 2 previously agreed military flights to repatriate illegal immigrants from his country, but he yet got an unforgettable lesson. Trump He was angry., threatening 25% duties that would double within a week and imposing sanctions on high-level officials under the pretext of national security, which It rapidly prompted Petra for surrender.
White home Press Secretary Karolina Leavitt confirmed then the triumph of his country in a short dispute with Colombia, after which Petro with rage tweeted a complex tirade on imperialism and racism as a farewell shot against Trump, who met with mockery on the Internet, especially from the Americans. This short-term scandal was crucial due to the fact that Trump proved how serious he was about the usage of customs and sanctions to force the Ibero-American countries to accept the return of their repatriated citizens.
He won the 2016 election partially thanks to the promise to build a wall on the confederate border to halt illegal immigration, but after that, Like about 8 million Illegal immigrants invaded the country during Biden's term, promised to expel as much as possible if voters reinstated him as they yet did. However, it will be hard to return them all, so his administration wants to force them to leave voluntarily on their own, creating highly burdensome conditions for those who remain.
Therefore, the repatriation of any of them to their homeland by military flights — of which in handcuffs, as has just happened to any illegal immigrants from Brazil, it aims to intimidate them and encourage them to return home on their own terms, and to emphasise the importance of ensuring that these flights are not rejected. Parallel Trump administration examines the agreement on the deportation of asylum seekers to El Salvador, which is presently known worldwide for zero tolerance for gang members.
As far as this is concerned, under US sanctions Venezuela held Repatriation flights last February after briefly allowed for their resumption in October 2023, so suspected members of Venezuelan gangs can be sent consecutive from the US to Salvadoran prisons if an agreement is reached. In conjunction with an unprecedented increase in the number of ICE raids across the country, those who stay in the US illegally will always gotta look over their shoulder and fear that they will be deported back to their homeland or sent to El Salvador, depending on who they are.
Trump's administration rightly considers illegal immigration a threat to national security, which explains Trump's fierce consequence to Petra's rejection of these 2 previously agreed military flights. If he had not made an example of it, most of the Ibero-American countries would have been expected to argue the U.S. as well, thus ruining its ambitious repatriation plans. So Trump had to remind Colombia and all another country in the hemisphere that they were a junior partner of the United States.
Failure to comply with its reasonable demands to accept their repatriated citizens who have illegally emigrated to the US will entail the crushing consequences of customs and sanctions that could harm their economies and importantly impede their political elites. Moreover, disrespect for the United States and Trump personally, as Petro did, is absolutely unacceptable in what Trump described as being born "America's golden age"and those who do will gotta pay the price, including the reputation.
The alleged "rule-based order" was never what Biden's administration mistakenly presented it for in relation to the claim that each country should be equal and must follow the same rules.
It's always been about keeping the single-polar hegemony in the U.S. The Emerging Multipolar planet Order by strengthening the post-cold global hierarchy at which it is at its peak. The stick and carrot method combines with clear double standards to encourage countries to submit to different results.
Those that are dependent on the American marketplace and/or military equipment, like most Ibero-American countries, tend to bend to his will, while those specified as Russia, which are more autaric and strategically autonomous, tend to resist. Obama and Biden's administrations tried to mask this reality with lofty rhetoric, and sometimes turning a blind eye to the transgressions of their partners, specified as those Ibero-American countries who have so far refused to accept their repatriated citizens, but Trump is more direct.
There is no scruples to openly remind them of their younger position vis-à-vis the US due to the fact that he would like his country to be afraid alternatively than loved if he had to choose between them, like Machiavelli. In addition, Trump is getting ready for negotiations with Putin on Ukraine, as well as with Xi on trade and possibly besides with Taiwan, so in their eyes he would seem weak if he allowed an average leader, specified as Petro, to argue him publically and even insult him without consequences.
These imperatives led him to escalate relations with Colombia.
The example Trump has just made with Petro will echo worldwide.
What he calls the "golden age of America", can be more specifically called the era of hyperrealism in U.S. abroad policy, in which the United States clearly declares their interests and then aggressively pursues them, regardless of planet opinion.
Therefore, it may be better for Russia and China to go compromise with the US, alternatively of questioning them if they do not duplicate this policy or if they do not have the same force or will to usage it.
