Dhaka, Feb. 17 -- Global politics sometimes offers us leaders' territorial expansionist ventures reminiscent of past ambitions. Donald Trump, the 47th US President, wished to place territories like Greenland, Canada, the Gaza Strip, and the Panama Canal under United States' control. These objectives are nothing novel, a flashback to the territorial ambitions of earlier leaders that reshaped geopolitics. This article examines the economic and strategic reasons behind Trump's expansionist goals, their likely effects, and the global responses they evoked. It attempts to place Trump's policies within the context of American expansionism, comparing them to earlier doctrines like Manifest Destiny and the Monroe Doctrine that similarly aimed to ...