Every country at risk following Trump's capture of Venezuelan president
Following the capture of the Venezuelan president by President Donald Trump, here is every country that is now at risk.
Trump announced the shock capture of President Nicola Maduro on Saturday (January 3), who is now being held in a prison in Brooklyn, New York.
Since then, the US president has issued threats to other countries including Greenland, Cuba, Mexico, Colombia and Iran.
Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One, Trump said: “Colombia is very sick, too, run by 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.”
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When he was asked if there were plans for the US to carry out a military operation in Colombia, the president replied: “It sounds good to me. You know why? Because they kill a lot of people.”
Mexico has also been a target for Trump, with him claiming that the country ‘has to get their act together’, otherwise ‘we’re going to have to do something’.
Recently, Trump took to his own social media platform Truth Social to weigh in on protests in Iran, saying: “If Iran shots [sic] and violently 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.”
Cuba has also come under threat, with the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, saying that he thinks the country is ‘in a lot of trouble’.
Speaking to NBC, he said: “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, who, by the way, are the ones that were propping up Maduro.”
Trump weighed in, adding: “I don’t know if they’re going to hold out, but Cuba now has no income. They got all of their income from Venezuela, from the Venezuelan oil. They’re not getting any of it. Cuba literally is ready to fall.”
Now, public fears are growing surrounding Greenland after Trump has made multiple comments about potentially taking over the territory.
Speaking to the press, Trump claimed that the US needs to acquire control over Greenland for ‘national protection’.
He added: “We do need Greenland, absolutely. We need it for defence.”