Watch out Greenland: Trump is pro-imperialism now

If it’s not threats of military action against <a href="theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/05/trump-colomb…; rel="nofollow">Colombia</a> and Cuba, or talk of taking <a href="theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/07/what-are-tru…; rel="nofollow">Greenland</a> from Denmark, it’s seizing <a href="theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/07/marinera-sei…; rel="nofollow">oil tankers</a> in European and Caribbean waters. All of it has world leaders scrambling to figure out how to handle Donald Trump’s revived form of US imperialism. Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Pulitzer-winning author Anne Applebaum about what to expect from a world changing by the hour at the hands of the US president