Is Trump planning to attack Greenland and with whom does he want to divide the world?

On Monday, the official website of the US State Department stated: "This is our hemisphere, and President Trump will not allow our security to be threatened."

Later, speaking to journalists aboard his plane, Donald Trump said this referred to a new US foreign policy doctrine.

"It’s now called the ‘Donroe Doctrine.’ (It states that) American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again," the US president explained.

Read more about the changes that have become cornerstones of US foreign policy in the article by Sergiy Sydorenko, European Pravda's editor: Donald Trump’s Hemisphere: how the US is preparing a new division of the world and what the consequences will be.

European Pravda has previously referred to the Monroe Doctrine as one of the principles becoming guiding for Donald Trump and his administration.

This doctrine (which, incidentally, had already appeared in US documents during Trump’s presidency) has now turned into an official roadmap for US foreign policy.

James Monroe was the fifth president of the United States, who in 1823 declared before Congress that the Western Hemisphere, where the American continent is located, would henceforth be a zone of exclusive US interest.

European powers, he said, should stay away from the Americas.

At the time, the United States was a young country that had only recently declared independence from Great Britain and was wary of European influence. However, the Monroe Doctrine, as it came to be known, soon acquired new meaning and became one of the fundamental principles of American diplomacy. It was no longer only about competition with Europe.

What became central was the idea that the United States had a special role in the Americas as an "international sheriff," a role it assigned to itself.

In 2013, during Barack Obama’s presidency, Secretary of State John Kerry solemnly declared that "the era of the Monroe Doctrine is over."

That declaration lasted only 12 years until Trump’s second term.

Events in Venezuela are a clear illustration that the United States once again sees itself as the "big brother" among other countries in the Americas. And if anyone still had doubts, Trump dispelled them personally.

The rapid reactivation of the Monroe Doctrine by the United States, both in actions and rhetoric, has not been limited to Venezuela.

Emboldened by what he sees as success in Venezuela, Donald Trump has again stated that the annexation of Greenland remains part of his plans.

"Greenland is surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships," he claimed without providing evidence, ruling out that anyone else could solve this problem. "Denmark is not going to be able to do it," the US president added.

Ultimately, under this new approach, the United States simply considers Greenland to be its own – fullstop. And the fact that Denmark, a state in the Eastern Hemisphere, considers it its territory is, according to the Monroe Doctrine, an encroachment on US sovereignty. Not the other way around, as Europeans see it.

In Europe, these new signals were immediately taken very seriously.

The "reincarnation" of the Monroe Doctrine and the US decision that power politics will guide its actions on the American continent and that the Western Hemisphere is officially its sphere of dominance also mean that Trump’s America does not, in general, oppose dividing the world into spheres of influence. This did not come as a complete surprise. American (and other) analysts had warned about this since the beginning of the year.

But now this policy has become a fait accompli and a signal heard by other regional and global players, including China and Russia.

Incidentally, while 200 years ago the United States sought to isolate the Americas from Europeans, today it is primarily seeking to isolate them from the Chinese.

China, whose rise Trump ostensibly seeks to resist, may end up among the main beneficiaries of this shift in US policy.