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In a thought-provoking analysis, The New Atlas explores whether the Trump administration’s foreign policy was aimed at dividing the globe into 'spheres of influence'—a strategic power-sharing arrangement between the U.S., Russia, and China. 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳 Could this explain key decisions on troop withdrawals, trade wars, and shifting alliances? Was it an attempt to reduce direct conflict through balance—or a way to rewrite the rules of global domination? 🌍🤝  This deep dive examines whether Washington sought to reshape global order by acknowledging great power zones, challenging the post-WWII unipolar system, and laying the groundwork for a new geopolitical reality. 🔍📉  #TheNewAtlas #TrumpForeignPolicy #SpheresOfInfluence #Geopolitics #GlobalPowerShift #USRussiaChina #MultipolarWorld #TrumpDoctrine #WorldOrder #GreatPowerPolitics #Geostrategy #ForeignPolicyAnalysis #AmericaFirst #GeopoliticalDivide #ChinaStrategy #RussiaStrategy #GlobalChessboard #UnipolarVsMultipolar #USGlobalInfluence #21stCenturyPower

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00:00It was recently brought to my attention that the New York Times wrote an article, this article,

00:08Trump's vision, one world, three powers, and there's a question mark. And when you see a

00:13question mark, it's almost a guarantee that everything you're going to read in that article

00:18is a lie or a stretching of the truth to the point where you're not going to gain anything

00:26by reading and accepting anything written at face value. President Trump's recent actions and

00:31statements suggest he hasn't said this. There are no policy papers planning this, laying this out.

00:39It simply says, President Trump's recent actions and statements suggest he might want an arrangement

00:46where the United States, China, and Russia each dominate their sphere of influence. And so someone

00:53on X saw this. They brought it to my attention. They asked me about it. Are there any policy papers

00:59talking about this? What do they mean by policy papers? The U.S. President, U.S. Congress do not

01:06actually make foreign policy or domestic policy for that matter. Powerful unelected corporations

01:13and financial institutions do. And the way they do this is by funding a collection of think tanks

01:19that help create a consensus amongst all of these multi-billion dollar multinational interests.

01:27They publish policy papers defining this consensus as a policy. And teams of lawyers take the policy

01:36papers and translate them into bills that are then sent with lobbyists to Washington to be signed off

01:43on everyone on both sides of the aisle. And to be rubber stamped by whoever is in the White House does

01:49not matter who, Republican or Democrat. And that is how foreign and domestic policy is created. The job

01:56of Congress and the White House is to sell this to the public alongside the corporate media. You have

02:04Democrats selling it to a target segment of the population. And the Republicans have their own target

02:13market that they are selling these policies to. It's often the exact same policy. It's just sold in a

02:18different way to these different groups of people, just like you would sell a product to different

02:23target markets. There are no policy papers from these think tanks talking about dividing the world up

02:31into spheres of influence. Unanimously, unanimously, all of these interests want to continue fighting the

02:41emergence of multipolarism and preserving American primacy over the entire planet. That has not

02:48changed. And it's not going to change anytime into the foreseeable future. So the whole premise

02:53of this New York Times article is based solely on recent actions and statements of President Trump and

03:00his administration. And but actually not really, because if you read through the article, it talks about

03:06people in his administration, people like U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who outright says no,

03:11the U.S. is not going to shrink away from Asia. It's going to continue pushing and confronting

03:17China. It's not going to allow China to achieve hegemony in Asia. China is the largest, most powerful

03:25country in Asia. And the U.S. is saying, no, you're not allowed to be. We are going to be the most powerful

03:31nation in Asia, even though Asia is on literally the other side of the planet from where we are on the map.

03:38So let's just look through this article very quickly. Again, they're talking about

03:44appears to be, suggests, might, may. His actions and statements suggest he might be envisioning a

03:54world in which each of the three so-called great powers, the United States, China, and Russia,

03:59dominates its part of the globe, some foreign policy analysts say. So President Trump didn't say

04:04this. No one in his administration has said this. Some foreign policy analysts say. And then it says,

04:11Mr. Trump has said he wants to take Greenland from Denmark, annex Canada, and reestablish American

04:16control of the Panama Canal. Those bids to extend U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere are the

04:22clearest signs yet of his desire to create a sphere of influence in the nation's backyard. In reality,

04:27and I've talked about this since all of this was first announced, this has nothing to do with

04:32creating a U.S. sphere of influence and allowing Russia and China their own spheres of influence.

04:37This is about creating a stronger position for the United States to continue pursuing privacy over

04:42the rest of the planet. By controlling Panama and controlling Greenland and Canada, for that matter,

04:48you are giving yourself tremendous control over global maritime trade. You have choke points you now

04:54control that you could cut off from specific countries, say China, for example, and you prevent them

05:00from using, say, the Panama Canal, or you prevent Russia and China from using the Arctic routes, which

05:06will have to pass Greenland and also Alaska and Canada. That is enhancing America's attempt to pursue

05:15primacy, not retreating away from it, not establishing your own sphere of influence and allowing Russia and China

05:23to have theirs. And the actions of the Trump administration demonstrate that there is no intention

05:29on allowing Russia or China to have their own spheres of influence, even though the New York Times

05:35makes a very weak argument to claim otherwise. It says, to that end, Mr. Trump has been trying to

05:42formalize Russian control of some Ukrainian territory and American access to Ukraine's minerals as part of a

05:47potential peace deal that critics say would effectively carve up Ukraine, similar to what great powers did

05:53in the age of empires. Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin spoke about Ukraine in a two-hour phone call last week.

05:58The negotiations between the U.S. and Russia are an obvious deception on America's part. They're trying

06:04to push and pull Russia into agreeing to a 30-day ceasefire the U.S. has told Europe to use to then move

06:09European and non-European troops into Ukraine to freeze the conflict. This will allow the United States to

06:15pivot its attention and resources to China and then come back and deal with Russia and Ukraine later.

06:22This is a process of division of labor between the U.S. and Europe and then vis-a-vis China between the U.S.,

06:30Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines. And it is also a process of strategic sequencing, which we do

06:36actually have signed and dated policy papers just laying out explicitly. There are no policy papers talking

06:44about the U.S. creating its sphere of influence and allowing Russia and China to have theirs. Not a single

06:49policy paper. There is this paper from 2024, so a year before President Trump took office, strategic sequencing

06:57revisited, and they're revisiting a previous policy paper published all the way back in 2020. It's by Wes Mitchell,

07:05and it says, the United States faces a growing risk of multi-front war against Russia, China, and Iran. The optimal response

07:11to this danger would be a sequential strategy aimed at inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia and

07:15Ukraine on a faster timeline than China is prepared to move against Taiwan. But for that strategy to

07:20work, the United States must use the current window wisely to shore up the situation in Eastern Europe,

07:24broker a more effective division of labor with allies in Europe and the Indo-Pacific, and reform the U.S.

07:31defense industrial base. There's nothing in there at all about dividing the world up into spheres of

07:36influence. It's all about defeating Russia, defeating China, dividing the labor of American primacy among

07:43its proxies, Europeans, Japan, South Korea, Philippines. And it's about doing it in a order

07:51that makes sense instead of trying to fight all of these countries you're trying to subordinate,

07:56subjugate at the same time. And 2025, U.S. President Trump is in office. His Secretary of Defense,

08:03Pete Hegseth, delivers this directive to Europe in Brussels. He talks about economic pressure on

08:11Russia. He talks about deploying peacekeepers to Ukraine. They should be European and non-European

08:20troops, not American troops. It should be a non-NATO mission. It should not be covered by Article 5 because

08:24the U.S. needs to pivot to China. And Europe needs to freeze the conflict until they're able to return.

08:32That is the whole plan. That is what is going on here. And remember the term division of labor used

08:39by Wes Mitchell in the 2024 policy paper. This is what Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth says. We face

08:45a peer competitor in the communist Chinese. As the United States prioritizes its attention to these

08:51threats, he's talking about China, European allies must lead from the front. Together, we can establish a

08:56division of labor that maximizes our comparative advantages in Europe and Pacific, respectively.

09:01So almost verbatim, exactly what the 2024 Wes Mitchell paper laid out. And then it talks about

09:08spending more on NATO from 2% to 5%. Secretary Hegseth lauds Poland for already achieving this.

09:17Talks about doubling down and recommitting themselves. He's talking about Europe, not only to

09:23Europe, Ukraine's immediate security needs, but Europe's long-term defense and deterrence goals.

09:29And he's talking about confronting Russia, holding Russia in Ukraine while the US deals with China,

09:37division of labor, strategic sequencing. This is what the Trump administration is doing. This is what

09:43the Biden administration was doing before it. This is the actual plan. And this is what the policy papers

09:49lay out. There is nothing at all anywhere about dividing the world up into spheres of influence,

09:56as the New York Times, as the New York Times falsely claims. And then the best the New York Times can do

10:02to claim that maybe the Trump administration is softening on China is claim this. The Trump

10:11administration officials have not detailed how far the United States would go to defend Taiwan in the

10:17event of a Chinese invasion. Under international law, Taiwan is part of China. China cannot invade its

10:24own island province. What China will do is deal with US interference within its own territory on the

10:30island province of Taiwan, which includes promoting a separatist administration in Taipei, and also

10:36actually stationing US troops on Taiwan. And you're reading this, which talks about Elbridge Colby

10:44during his confirmation hearing. And they asked him about his stance on defending Taiwan, and they

10:52claimed that it appeared to have softened. And yet, I was just reading this week, it needs to be a

10:58thousand. US has 500 military trainers on Taiwan, retired admiral says. This was during a congressional

11:03hearing. And he's talking about how there's US troops on Taiwan right now under the Trump administration,

11:08and that he's suggesting there should be more. And we know that under the Trump administration,

11:14the US military has continued to expand its footprints in the Asia Pacific region, including

11:18in the Philippines, specifically to encroach upon China, and more specifically, to place US troops as

11:27close as possible to the island province of Taiwan for a future confrontation. So now, President Trump,

11:33the Trump administration is not backing off from either Russia or China. They're dumping the

11:40conflict in Ukraine onto Europe to freeze temporarily, so the US can focus on dealing a blow

11:46to China, and then through strategic sequencing, coming back to Ukraine. And then it mentions Marco

11:52Rubio, right here. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was asked by a reporter whether administration

11:59officials had discussed setting up spheres of influence, which would entail negotiating limits

12:04on each superpower's footprint, including in Asia. Mr. Rubio, who has a more conventional foreign policy

12:09views than Mr. Trump, asserted that the United States would maintain its military alliances in Asia.

12:14Those alliances allow it to base troops across the region. We don't talk about spheres of influence.

12:20The United States is an Indo-Pacific nation. We have relationships with Japan, South Korea,

12:25and the Philippines. We're going to continue those relationships. So you read the whole New York

12:29Times article. They're claiming that the Trump administration's actions and statements suggest

12:40it may be setting up spheres of influence. They point blank ask the current US Secretary of State

12:48if that's true. He says no. They claim that US negotiations with Russia over Ukraine indicate

12:57some sort of accommodation of Russia, when in reality, Secretary Hegseth in February explained what

13:07that was all about. It's about tricking Russia into a 30-day ceasefire so they can freeze the conflict,

13:12pivot to China, and then come back later. There is absolutely no evidence at all of the

13:18this theory of the US setting up a sphere of influence for itself and allowing Russia and

13:24China to set up theirs. Every action the Trump administration has taken is to, yes, create a

13:30stronger position in the Western Hemisphere, but only to project a pursuit of primacy around the rest

13:36of the globe more effectively. That is what is going on. That is what every policy paper spanning

13:41decades, including up to and including right now, current policy papers, current think tanks,

13:48this is what they're talking about doing. Nobody is talking about spheres of influence. That is the

13:53unfortunate truth of the matter. I wish it wasn't so. I wish the United States would work together with

13:59other nations rather than try to impose itself upon them. I wish it would mind its own business and

14:05its part of the world invest inward rather than try to project power outward. But it simply isn't the

14:13case. All of the policy papers point to continued pursuit of primacy. The Trump administration is

14:20demonstrably carrying out this policy. There are words and narratives and terms almost verbatim ripped

14:27from these signed and dated policy papers. There are no policy papers about dividing the world into

14:32spheres of influence. To do that would be a massive project that would require immense groundwork laid out

14:40by armies of policy makers. There's nothing of the sort taking place. And that's your first clue

14:46that it isn't true, is the fact that there is not this groundwork laid out to achieve any of this.

14:52That's your first clue that this is just a narrative to distract people and to deceive people. And it's an

14:58irony that it's the New York Times laying out this narrative that many Trump supporters are going to

15:04cling to in the hope that it isn't just continuity of agenda and that President Trump is actually going

15:09to make good on his campaign promises. But that simply is not going to happen. You can doubt that

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