🌎🚨 Trump and Staff Now Threaten to Take Over Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and Greenland. Yes I'm Dead Serious.

After kidnapping Venezuela’s president, Trump and his allies are openly shopping for the next target.

If you’ve been feeling like the world has slipped into something evil —something lawless—trust your instincts. In the past few days, the Trump administration didn’t just cross a line. It erased the line. And now Trump and his allies are talking like the whole world is their menu.

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Now let’s name what’s happening.

The U.S. bombed a sovereign country, kidnapped its President and First Lady, then announced it would “run” the country. And then, with barely a pause, the same people began threatening to do it again—elsewhere.

This is not “America First.” This is empire-first. This is corporate-first. This is the United States returning to the oldest colonial tradition on earth: take what you want, then write a story that makes it sound virtuous.

And they’re not even trying to sound virtuous anymore.

Venezuela wasn’t “justice.” It was a business plan with missiles.

Reuters reported Trump being asked point-blank whether he spoke with oil companies before the operation in Venezuela—whether he tipped them off. Trump answered: “Before and after. They want to go in and they’re going to do a great job.” That is not a policy statement. That is a confession.

In another briefing, Trump didn’t just imply American control—he said it. The Telegraph reports Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One: “It means we’re in charge.” He has said the U.S. will “run” Venezuela until a “safe, proper and judicious transition.” He has said oil companies will rebuild the infrastructure and the oil will flow—paid for by the oil companies. That is colonial language.

A sovereign country’s oil does not become a corporate prize because the U.S. says so. Venezuela’s land does not become “ours” because Trump feels like it. That’s not the rule of law. That’s plunder.

And understand what makes this so dangerous: once a superpower normalizes kidnapping a head of state and handing the country’s resources to corporations, the precedent spreads. Not in theory. In practice. We’re watching it spread in real time.

“We need Greenland.” The colonial instinct has no off switch.

The Telegraph reports Trump telling The Atlantic: “We do need Greenland, absolutely.” He framed it as “defence” because Greenland is “surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships.” Then he said officials in his administration would decide what happened to Greenland, repeating his annexation logic.

The Prime Minister of Greenland responded bluntly: “That’s enough now.” Denmark’s Prime Minister reportedly urged Trump to stop threatening a “historically close ally,” emphasizing that Greenland is not for sale and that Denmark already has a defense agreement with the U.S.

What matters here isn’t the plausibility of an invasion tomorrow morning. What matters is the mindset. Annexation talk is empire talk. It’s the belief that smaller nations don’t fully own themselves—that they exist for larger powers to “manage.”

The Telegraph also reports that Stephen Miller’s wife posted a Greenland map painted with the U.S. flag and captioned “SOON.” That’s not diplomacy. That’s conquest cosplay. It’s also the kind of messaging that makes the world less safe, because it tells every country watching that U.S. threats are now social-media content.

Mexico, Colombia, Cuba: the list is not subtle. It’s explicit.

While Venezuela is still bleeding, the rhetoric has moved on.

A separate report says a U.S. P-8 Poseidon surveillance jet was circling off Mexico’s coast amid Trump’s threats of Venezuela-style action. Trump has repeatedly said cartels “run Mexico,” and has floated strikes.

Then, Reuters reports Trump openly threatened Colombia. A reporter asked whether the U.S. would pursue a military operation against Colombia. Trump replied: “It sounds good to me.” Colombia’s Foreign Ministry called it an unacceptable threat and said it violates international law and represents undue interference in internal affairs.

And then you have Marco Rubio, publicly warning Cuba is “in a lot of trouble,” and talking about the island like it’s a problem Washington will solve. That’s not policy. That’s coercion language.

Here’s the through-line across all of it: the Trump administration is openly framing sovereign nations as “problems” that can be handled with U.S. force. Drugs are the excuse. Security is the branding. Oil is the prize. And the method is the same: first you say they’re illegitimate, then you say you have no choice, then you act.

“Great powers don’t act like that.” Yes they do. That’s the problem.

The Telegraph reports JD Vance defending this approach in a line that should make every American sit upright: “Are we just supposed to allow a communist to steal our stuff in our hemisphere and do nothing? Great powers don’t act like that.”

That sentence is a worldview. It’s also a confession.

Notice what it assumes: that Latin America is “our hemisphere” in the colonial sense, that resources are “our stuff,” and that any government Washington dislikes can be framed as theft.

That is not “defense.” That is the Monroe Doctrine on steroids—updated with drones and corporate extraction.

And it leads directly to what Trump is already saying out loud: we are in charge. When a president says that about another country, he is declaring the end of sovereignty.

International law is being mocked, and Gaza taught the world what that means.

I’ve said it before, and the past two years have only deepened it: international law means next to nothing when the empire decides it doesn’t apply. The U.N. means next to nothing when the empire treats it like theater.

The genocide in Gaza has been the most brutal demonstration of this in our lifetime. The world watched mass starvation, mass killing, destroyed hospitals, killed aid workers, and pulverized neighborhoods, and the so-called rules-based order did not stop it. Courts were pressured. Institutions were bullied. “Never again” became a slogan printed on pamphlets while children died on camera.

That collapse of accountability didn’t stay in Gaza.

It moved outward.

When you teach a superpower that it can fund and shield atrocities with no consequences, that superpower learns it can do more. When you teach a U.S. president that vetoes and propaganda and media discipline will protect him, he starts acting like the law is optional everywhere.

That’s why Venezuela matters. Not because Venezuela is the most important country on earth, but because the method is so blatant.

Bomb. Seize. “Run.” Extract.

Then threaten the next nation.

Then tell the world it’s all for “stability.”

This is how unchecked power behaves once it realizes there are no guardrails.

The cheering crowd argument is propaganda, and it’s intellectually dishonest.

People keep trying to sell this by showing cheering crowds in Doral or in parts of Caracas. Yes, some people celebrate when leaders fall. That’s human. It’s also irrelevant to legality.

If a foreign power kidnapped Trump tomorrow and announced he would stand trial overseas, millions of Americans would cheer. Does that make it lawful? Does that make it moral? Does that mean the foreign power had the right?

Of course not.

In almost any nation in the world, if a president is seized, you’ll find some segment of the population that approves. That is not how such actions are evaluated. The standard is law, sovereignty, and the prohibition on aggression.

And that’s why the U.N. Charter exists: to prevent the world from turning into a place where “whoever is strongest” gets to decide the fate of nations.

But that’s exactly where we are drifting. In fact, I think we are already there and the UN is practically useless.

The real motive is now explicit: extraction and control.

When Trump says he spoke to oil companies before and after, he is telling you who this is for. When he says “they want to go in,” he’s not talking about humanitarian workers. He’s talking about corporations.

This is the part Americans have to face.

For decades, we’ve been trained to believe our interventions are moral. That we’re “helping.” That we bring “democracy.” But the U.S. record in Latin America is drenched in coups, invasions, sanctions, and forced economic restructuring—often followed by privatization, extraction, and the enrichment of foreign corporations.

Trump is simply doing what prior administrations often did—but with less sophistication and more confession.

And that confession matters. Because it strips away the last bit of plausible deniability.

What comes next is the most terrifying part.

When a president starts talking about running other countries, the menu expands. Venezuela becomes the precedent. Greenland becomes the test of alliance discipline. Mexico becomes the drug-war excuse. Colombia becomes the next “operation.” Cuba becomes the next “regime” to pressure.

And once you normalize this approach, you don’t get to control how the world responds. Other powers will react. Alliances will fracture. Proxy conflicts will grow. Ordinary people will die.

Even U.S. national security insiders are warning that the idea of America “running” other countries will explode in our faces. But warnings don’t stop empires. Accountability does.

And right now, accountability is weak. It is basically non-existent.

That’s why the only real counterforce left is public pressure: naming it, refusing it, organizing against it, and breaking the propaganda spell that tells Americans this is normal.

Family, I’m going to keep doing that work. I’m going to keep calling this what it is: colonialism and conquest language returning in real time. I’m going to keep writing, digging, and connecting the dots—because these are the days when history is happening while people are brushing their teeth and paying bills.

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