Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Greenland, Iran: it is a Donald Trump who now threatens everyone, allies and enemies, who improvised for 40 minutes yet another show as commander in chief with the reporters on Air Force One that took him back to the White House after the parties at Mar-a-Lago.
Threats that are not new but which, put together in one fell swoop after the controversial blitz in Venezuela, increase the fears of a large part of the international community about global stability and order, while a new clash between the great powers is taking place at the UN Security Council. In a growing isolation of the USA, which is creating a widespread climate of mistrust or hostility even in what they consider their backyard.
The attacks against Colombia and Denmark
There were two biggest hits: against Bogota and Copenhagen. “Colombia is governed by a sick man, he won’t do it for a long time, Operation Colombia seems like a good idea to me,” warned The Donald, referring to President Gustavo Petro, guilty in his eyes of leading a country that exports cocaine to the USA. In recent days he had already warned him to “watch his behind”. Petro rejected the “false accusation of being a drug trafficker and of owning cocaine factories”, recalling on X that he had never been mentioned in any judicial investigation relating to drug trafficking. The leader of Bogota then invited “all the Venezuelan, Colombian and Latin American people to take to the streets” and said he was “ready to take back the weapons that I don’t love” to defend his country, which in the meantime has strengthened the military presence on the border with Venezuela. Trump also relaunched his expansionist aims on Greenland, which belongs to Denmark, a NATO ally: “We need Greenland from the point of view of national security, it is so strategic. In this at the moment it is full of Russian and Chinese ships everywhere and Denmark will not be able to deal with it”, he said, joking about the fact that Copenhagen has improved the security of the island by adding “a dog sled”. of explicit distance from the American president.
“Mexico must get its act together”
But the tycoon didn’t stop there. “We must do something with Mexico too, Mexico must get its act together,” he continued, praising President Claudia Sheinbaum but regretting that she rejected her repeated offers of troops to defeat the drug cartels. The colleague’s reply is harsh: «Mexico firmly believes that America does not belong to a doctrine or a power. The American continent belongs to the people of each of the countries that compose it.” Cuba is also in the crosshairs, but Trump has ruled out US interventions because the island, without heavily subsidized Venezuelan oil, “seems to be collapsing on its own”. Not satisfied, he also threatened a tariff increase on India if it continues to import Russian oil, as well as a “very hard blow” to Tehran if it kills the demonstrators. And he also contradicted Vladimir Putin, stating that he did not believe that Kiev attacked one of the tsar’s residences. His updated Monroe Doctrine appears clear: reaffirm US control over Latin America but dictate the law of the strongest even throughout the world, in what some media have defined as “bullying” or “state gangsterism”.
Use more isolates
The United States also seems increasingly isolated at the UN and the Security Council, where they have been heavily attacked for their blitz not only by Russia and China but also by Secretary General Antonio Guterres and their French ally, according to which “the proliferation of violations of the UN Charter and international law by States with responsibilities as permanent members of the Security Council undermines the very foundations of the international order”.