War Secretary Hegseth unveils Trump’s geopolitical vision at SOUTHCOM meeting.

During a conference at the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) on Sunday, U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth unveiled the “Greater North America” strategy, presenting it as the next geopolitically significant shift for the United States and its allies.

The administration of President Donald Trump seeks to materialize a strategic vision that includes Greenland, “the Gulf of America,” and the Panama Canal. It also turns “all sovereign countries and territories north of the equator” into the immediate security perimeter for the United States.

“Every sovereign nation and territory north of the equator, from Greenland to Ecuador and from Alaska to Guyana, is not part of the Global South,” Hegseth said, challenging a narrative that Latin American progressives have defended for decades.

The Greater North America “is an immediate security perimeter in this great neighborhood that we all live in,” the U.S. War Secretary said before security officials from other countries attending the SOUTHCOM meeting.

“He emphasized that geography underpins the doctrine, pointing to natural barriers such as the Amazon and the Andes mountains, which he argued separate northern and southern strategic responsibilities,” Business Standard reported.

“According to Hegseth, the United States will bolster its military posture and presence across the northern hemisphere in coordination with regional partners,” the outlet added, noting that the U.S. War Secretary further specified the scope of the Trump administration’s vision.

“Each one of these countries borders either the North Atlantic or the North Pacific. Each one of these countries sits north of the two basic geographic barriers that exist in this region, the Amazon and the Andes mountains,” he said, inviting northern countries to defend the “shared immediate security perimeter.”

By contrast, Hegseth invited countries south of the equator to share the “burden” to secure the southern regions of the broader neighborhood.

“In the south, meaning south of the equator, the other side of this great neighborhood, we will strengthen partnerships through increased burden sharing. This will enable you to take a greater role in defending the South Atlantic and the South Pacific and to secure critical infrastructure and resources in partnership with us and other Western nations,” Hegseth said.

Finally, in an attempt to make a clearly neocolonial geopolitical proposal more appealing, Hegseth invoked the “Quarter Sphere Defence” approach used by the United States in World War II.

“This is what we did in World War II. Just like we sank ships with torpedoes in World War II, at the Department of War, we call it the Quarter Sphere Defence. And we will do this again.”

Through social media, writer David Icke recalled that the supposed “new geopolitical vision” reflects a conception that had already been circulating in trillionaire circles.

“The ‘technate’ post-democracy tyranny region promoted by Elon Musk’s grandfather runs from Venezuela and Colombia in South America up through Central America and Mexico to the U.S., Canada and… Greenland. Just a coincidence,” the British author pointed out.

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Sources: First Post – Business Standard

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