{"id":45935,"date":"2026-01-07T11:43:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=45935"},"modified":"2026-01-07T11:43:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:43:28","slug":"in-unhinged-rant-miller-says-us-has-right-to-take-over-any-country-for-its-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/in-unhinged-rant-miller-says-us-has-right-to-take-over-any-country-for-its-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"In \u2018Unhinged\u2019 Rant, Miller Says US Has Right to Take Over Any Country For Its Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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CNN anchor Jake Tapper listens as White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller says the US has the right to take over Greenland in an interview on January 5, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo: screenshot\/CNN)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The White House adviser offered \u201ca very good definition of imperialism,\u201d said Sen. Bernie Sanders.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Julia Conley<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jan 06, 2026 (CommonDreams.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBelligerent\u201d was how one Democratic lawmaker described a diatribe given by top White House<\/a> adviser Stephen Miller<\/a> on CNN <\/em>Monday evening regarding the Trump administration\u2019s right to take over Venezuela\u2014or any other country\u2014if doing so is in the supposed interest of the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To Sen. Bernie Sanders<\/a> (I-Vt.), however, Miller was simply providing viewers with \u201ca very good definition of imperialism<\/a>\u201d as he described the worldview the administration is operating under as it takes control of Venezuela<\/a> and eyes other countries, including Greenland<\/a>, that it believes it can and should invade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThis is what imperialism is all about,\u201d Sanders told CNN<\/em>\u2018s Jake Tapper. \u201cAnd I suspect that people all over the world are saying, \u2018Wow, we\u2019re going back to where we were 100 years ago, or 50 years ago, where the big, powerful countries were exploiting poorer countries for their natural resources.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The senator spoke to Tapper shortly after Miller\u2019s interview, in which the news anchor asked whether President Donald Trump<\/a> would support holding an election in Venezuela days after the US military<\/a> bombed the country and abducted<\/a> President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller refused to directly engage with the question, saying only that it would be \u201cabsurd and preposterous\u201d for the US to install Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado as the leader of the country, before asking Tapper to \u201cgive [him] the floor\u201d and allow him to explain the White House\u2019s view on foreign policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe United States<\/a> is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere,\u201d said Miller. \u201cWe\u2019re a superpower and under President Trump we are going to conduct ourselves as a superpower. It is absurd that we would allow a nation in our backyard to become the supplier of resources to our adversaries but not to us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of \u201cdemanding that elections be held\u201d in Venezuela, he added, \u201cthe future of the free world depends on America to be able to assert ourselves and our interests without an apology.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower and under President Trump we are going to conduct ourselves as a superpower. It's absurd that we would allow a nation in our backyard to become the supplier of\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/wXK2UxnqUj<\/a><\/p>— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 5, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>