The "braggart" is getting what he wants.

1. As I have stated in previous texts, Trump is not just a "braggart." He must be taken seriously because he is a real threat to the world, especially to small and peripheral countries and populations.

2. You have to be incredibly stupid to think that Trump "invented" the "Middle Eastern Riviera" proposal during the press conference, as has been claimed. It's obvious that this brilliant idea was discussed in advance with Netanyahu and the Israeli far-right.

3. Trump has always aligned himself with the Israeli far-right (like Bolsonaro). He moved his capital to Jerusalem and recognized Israel's "sovereignty" over the Golan Heights, all in defiance of UN resolutions on the matter.

4. Trump supports the "Greater Israel" project, which involves the mass expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank.

5. Now, everyone is astonished by the proposal repeatedly made and ratified by Marco Rubio, which is, in reality, criminal. After all, ethnic cleansing is a crime against humanity.

6. But since when has Trump cared about this? He despises international conventions and treaties and sees the world order and “globalism” as weapons against American interests. The only thing he respects is force. He advocates for a Hobbesian order, revolving around American interests. He has just ordered sanctions against individuals who worked and are working on investigations against the US and Israel at the International Criminal Court.

7. As I have already written, he and MAGA want to abolish world rules and conventions. They want to New World Orderbrutal and cynical. Yanis Varoufakis stated something similar: "Trump has abolished international law."

8. Obviously, it will be difficult to expel the Palestinians, to get other countries to accept them into their territories, even temporarily. But, interestingly, Israeli forces are already preparing for the evacuation.

9. Panamanians are another population suffering under the heel of the Hobbesian wolf.

10. Panama was forced to: a) cancel its participation in the Belt and Road Initiative; b) allow US military vessels to circulate through the canal without paying fees, which violates the neutrality of the Panama Canal; c) allow the US to use Panama's airport as a hub for flights of deportees from Latin America; d) prevent CK Hutchison Holdings, owned by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, from continuing to operate two of Panama's five ports: Balboa, on the Pacific, and Cristóbal, on the Atlantic.

11. This company has operated these ports since the beginning of 1996. Since Hong Kong was still a British colony, this wasn't considered a problem. However, since the end of 1997, Hong Kong has once again become part of China (albeit with some autonomy), and its economy is increasingly intertwined with that of the rest of China. The US accuses the Panamanians of "handing over the ports and the canal" to their great rival. Obviously, this has nothing to do with the management of the canal, which is solely Panamanian. Nevertheless, the ridiculous "accusation" persists.

12. The problem is that there is a contract between this Hong Kong company and the Panamanian government. However, this is already being resolved. Two Panamanian lawyers have filed a lawsuit in the country's Supreme Court in an attempt to cancel the Hong Kong company's concession.

13. Interestingly, their representation was filed one day after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino that it was “necessary” to reduce China’s alleged influence in the canal to avoid “greater retaliation” from the US. The action argues that the contract for the two ports is unconstitutional.

14. Most likely, the Supreme Court of Panama will accept the claim.

15. The US invasion of Panama in 1989, which aimed to depose President Noriega and dissolve the Panamanian armed forces, is still fresh in the minds of Panamanians.

16. It was called Operation Just CauseBut it could also have been called Operation Riviera. Whatever.

17. More is likely to come, especially against Latin American countries that have dared to diversify their relations and move beyond the narrow "backyard" of the United States.

18. As the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío prophetically stated in his poem "To Roosevelt":You are the United States, you are the future invader of naive America who has indigenous blood who still prays to Jesus Christ and speaks in Spanish.”

19. The geopolitical Big Stick is loose, and praying, especially in Spanish or Portuguese, won't do much good.