Since the seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolas Máduro by US forces at the weekend, US President Donald Trump and members of his administration have issued warnings to a number of different countries and territories – together with Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Iran and Greenland, a self-governing territory of Denmark.
Trump mentioned Sunday: “We are in the business of having countries around us that are viable and successful and where the oil is allowed to freely come out.”
“American dominance in the Western hemisphere will never be questioned again,” Trump mentioned.
Here’s what to find out about what Trump has mentioned in the final two days, and the way a few of these governments have responded.
Greenland
Trump repeated on Sunday that the US wants the enormous north Atlantic island of Greenland “from the standpoint of national security.”
“We need Greenland. … It’s so strategic right now. Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships all over the place,” Trump advised reporters aboard Air Force One. “We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security, and Denmark is not going to be able to do it.”
Responding to Trump’s newest feedback, Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens Frederik Nielsen mentioned Monday that “the current and repeated rhetoric coming from the United States is entirely unacceptable. When the President of the United States speaks of ‘needing Greenland’ and links us to Venezuela and military intervention, it is not only wrong. It is disrespectful.”
“Our country is not an object in great-power rhetoric. We are a people. A country. A democracy,” Nielsen added.
Trump has repeatedly stated that he needs to annex Greenland — an enormous, resource-rich 836,000 sq. miles (2,166,000 sq. kilometer) island in the Atlantic and self-governing territory of Denmark — claiming that that is wanted for American safety functions.
Both Greenland and Denmark, a NATO ally of the US, are staunchly against the thought.
Trump had harsh words for Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Sunday, describing him as “a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States, and he’s not going to be doing it very long.”
When pressed by a reporter if these feedback meant there may very well be an “operation” in Colombia in the future, Trump responded, “sounds good to me.”
Petro defended his authorities’s monitor file on combatting drug trafficking in a close to 700-word submit on X, together with what he described as “the largest cocaine seizure in the world’s history.”
He added: “I am not illegitimate, nor am I a narco, I only have as assets my family home that I still pay for with my salary.”
Petro mentioned he has ordered focused bombings towards drug-linked armed teams whereas adhering to humanitarian legislation.
However, cocaine manufacturing in Colombia has attain file highs, according to the the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
Petro angered the Trump administration and had his US visa canceled in September after calling on US troopers to disobey orders.
Trump mentioned Sunday that army intervention was pointless in Cuba, a key ally of Venezuela, as a result of it was “ready to fall.”
“I don’t think we need any action,” Trump mentioned. “It looks like it’s going down.”
“I don’t know if they’re going to hold out, but Cuba now has no income,” he added. “They got all their income from Venezuela, from the Venezuelan oil.”
But his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, referred to as the Cuban authorities “a huge problem.”
“I think they’re in a lot of trouble, yes,” Rubio advised NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
“I’m not going to talk to you about what our future steps are going to be and our policies are going to be right now, in this regard, but I don’t think it’s any mystery that we are not big fans of the Cuban regime.”
“If I lived in Havana and I worked in the government, I’d be concerned,” Rubio mentioned.
At a rally Saturday in entrance of the US Embassy in Havana, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel promised to not let the Cuba-Venezuela alliance go down with no combat.
“For Venezuela, of course for Cuba, we are willing to give even our own life, but at a heavy cost,” Díaz-Canel proclaimed.
Trump has incessantly accused Mexico of not doing sufficient to clamp down on drug cartels.
On Sunday, he mentioned medicine have been “pouring” by way of Mexico and that “we’re going to have to do something.”
Trump added that the cartels in Mexico have been “very strong” and “Mexico has to get their act together.”
In a telephone interview with Fox News, Trump mentioned he had requested Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum if she wished the US army’s assist in rooting out drug cartels.
Mexico has not responded to Trump’s newest remarks however was one among six countries Sunday to sentence the seizure of Maduro, saying US actions contradicted the “fundamental principles of international law.”
Trump additionally repeated his warning to Iran, the place anti-government protests are into their second week.
“If they start killing people like they have in the past, I think they’re going to get hit very hard by the United States,” Trump advised reporters Sunday.
Last week, Trump mentioned that if Iran “kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go.”
One Iranian human rights group estimated Sunday that 16 people had been killed in the protests thus far. NCS can not confirm that tally.
At the finish of final month, Trump warned Iran towards any try to rebuild its nuclear and ballistic missile applications. After assembly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump mentioned he had heard Iran is “behaving badly … I hear that Iran is trying to build up again, and if they are, we’re going to have to knock them down.”
Iran’s supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei mentioned Sunday the Islamic Republic “will not yield to the enemy” and rioters needs to be “put in their place.”
The US bombed a number of of Iran’s key nuclear facilities in June, amid Israel’s 12-day conflict towards the nation. The assault ended what had been a stuttering strategy of bilateral US-Iran talks designed to rein in its nuclear program.