Resetting the Great Reset
On display at Davos and beyond, Donald Trump’s global agenda against the globalists is the reestablishment of nationalism and America First.
Tiny islands in the Indian Ocean have become the latest focus of President Donald Trump’s national security concerns, even as he has angled for U.S. acquisition of Greenland. The most important island is Diego Garcia, home to a vital U.S. military base.
The Chagos Islands are a British territory, but the UK government recently agreed to hand them over to Mauritius following a non-binding ruling by the International Court of Justice in 2019. In 2022, then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak agreed to begin negotiations for Mauritius to take over the islands with an agreement to “ensure the continued effective operation of the joint UK-US military base on Diego Garcia.”
Trump is now calling this an “act of GREAT STUPIDITY.” As he posted on social media, “Shockingly, our ‘brilliant’ NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital U.S. Military Base, to Mauritius, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER.”
The fact of the matter is, Trump is not wrong. The location is of strategic national security interest, and giving the islands to Mauritius opens the door for China to take up positions on them, an increasingly common practice for Beijing across the region.
Trump’s objection to this deal is the same reason he has sought to acquire Greenland; it’s all about protecting the U.S. and NATO’s interests against both Russian and Chinese aggression.
On the Greenland front, Trump announced that an agreement for a Greenland framework had been reached with NATO allies. It’s almost as if, after all the pearl-clutching over Trump’s threat to Greenland’s semi-autonomous national sovereignty, European leaders know that only the U.S. can protect the region from Russia and China.
Trump delivered a long speech at Davos that effectively told the globalist elites their agenda was over. Effectively, Trump is resetting the globalist elites’ great reset, their vision of a future in which nation-states become secondary and beholden to the global elites’ agenda and organizations.
This factor, more than any other, is why Trump is so hated by European leaders. They mock him as a “big idiot,” as one unnamed European leader called him.
But the fact of the matter is, Trump is more than willing to play the big idiot while exposing Europe’s globalist elites as paper tigers. Their vision of a brave new world is collapsing under the weight of reality.
Like individualism, nationalism will never disappear. Trump recognizes this reality, and instead of cowering to a globalist pipe dream, he’s gone about exposing and exploiting its inherent weakness. Its leftist political mores are no match for the U.S.‘s economic and military power.
Trump knows this and is using this to, again, reset the reset. He’s reasserting the Monroe Doctrine in the western hemisphere, as illustrated by his actions in Venezuela and his pursuit of Greenland. He’s challenging NATO’s lazy complacency. His immigration enforcement is reestablishing the national reality that borders matter and will be defended. His tariff barrage, even against long-time European allies, further establishes this reality.
Trump’s America First agenda is, at its heart, a direct repudiation and assault against everything the globalist elites at Davos stand for. This is why they hate him, and this is why so many Americans love him.
