Colonialist Geopolitics
Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero
Donald Trump behaves like Kaiser Wilhelm II of the Hohenzollern dynasty regarding the global territorial division; his megalomania only meant the preamble to greater damage. Pan-Germanism was not inhibited by the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it became radicalized until it reached the hell of the Second World War. Wilhelm II was the facade of Adolf Hitler. What will follow after Donald Trump?
Understanding the primitivism of the Trumpist elite that governs the White House can shed light on the prospects of the new world order.
Although it is said that Eurasia represents the new axis of global control where Donald Trump represents the Russian doll, the truth is that the Anglo-Saxon and neoliberal plutocrats can hardly be dominated as happened with the oligarchs under the aegis of Vladimir Putin; the silovik nomenklatura cannot control the world even if it tries to. The realism of force is absolute in the present and surviving democracies, as well as colonized societies, have to consider it.
For Mexico, it means that traditional American imperialism has gone out of control and anything can happen; the prospect of a national future similar to what happened between Ukraine and Russia does not have to be ruled out; Trump's insistence that Canada join the United States can translate into an order for Mexico that can hardly be ignored if the national government and the Morena regime continue adrift.
Since the six-year term of Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, when Mexico was forced by the Mérida Initiative of the Americans to promote a low-intensity war against drug trafficking, the limits of governability were reduced exponentially; now, the presidency of the republic has to reduce the capacity of mobilization of the powers that be and return to the centralism of public administration to ward off a manic expansionism representative of the Trumpists. The impact of Trumpism on the world has been alarming; however, Mexico is the most affected nation of all.
Different actors, national and foreign, cause ungovernability in Mexico; they weaken the presidency of the republic not only to prioritize their particular interests. Now, the gaze of the North American empire is more abusive and perhaps the national government can take advantage of the situation to overtake the powers that be.
Felipe Calderón made the mistake of considering that the national institutional forces had the capacity to contain the pressure of the different interest groups - legal and illegal - in the country, the Mexican State accumulated one of the most significant defeats to its credit. The logic that a monster serves to scare away other monsters may be significant now, Sheinbaum can use the ambition of Yankee imperialism to return governability to Mexico as occurred during the government of Ernesto Zedillo and Miguel de la Madrid.
There is no dispute over the nation in Mexico due to different national development projects, there is an exponential factionalism caused by an internal colonialism and an authoritarian multiculturalism that has reached its limit and is encouraged by the historical enemies of state institutions.
Mexico does not have the organizational capacity of the Ukrainian State; however, under the situation of anarchy, a scenario of problems for society can develop that sets the tone for social displacements towards Central and South America and, even, a dystopia that harms North America. Mexico is to Donald Trump what the Russian winter was to Hitler and Napoleon.
Recovering governability in Mexico can guarantee the permanence of various social groups and, surely, would allow a safer collaboration with the United States for all actors.
Trump comes and his hegemony is raw, his pretension to take over the country is more than absolute and national unity is obligatory in the face of the impact it represents.