{"id":1118,"date":"2026-01-10T09:12:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/trumps-territorial-ambition-new-imperialism-or-a-case-of-the-emperors-new-clothes\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T09:12:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:12:45","slug":"trumps-territorial-ambition-new-imperialism-or-a-case-of-the-emperors-new-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/trumps-territorial-ambition-new-imperialism-or-a-case-of-the-emperors-new-clothes\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s territorial ambition: new imperialism or a case of the emperor\u2019s new clothes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s attack on Venezuela suggests expansionism is under way but some argue it is simply standard US foreign policy stripped of hypocrisyThe attack on Venezuela and the seizure of its president was a shocking enough start to 2026, but it was only the next day, when the smoke had dispersed and Donald Trump was flying from Florida to Washington DC in triumph, that it became clear the world had entered a new era.The US president was leaning on a bulkhead on Air Force One, in a charcoal suit and gold tie, regaling reporters with inside details of the abduction of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. He claimed his government was \u201cin charge\u201d of Venezuela and that US companies were poised to extract the country\u2019s oil wealth. Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s attack on Venezuela suggests expansionism is under way but some argue it is simply standard US foreign policy stripped<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}