Here are the countries Trump threatened after Venezuela

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Published 13.11 

            

            

           US President Donald Trump aboard his Air Force One plane on Sunday.

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From Greenland to Iran.

Since the US attacked Venezuela on Saturday, captured leader Nicolás Maduro and took him out of the country, threats against other countries have been pouring in.

Here are the countries and territories that the US has threatened in recent days.

Greenland

- We need Greenland. It's so strategic right now. Greenland is full of Russian and Chinese ships everywhere, Trump claimed on Sunday.

Since then, the same tone has been heard from Trump in several different interviews, as well as from, among others, his deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. The leader of the autonomous Danish island has responded by calling the US rhetoric "unacceptable" and "disrespectful".

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, like several allied countries, is urging the US to stop its Greenland threats.

Colombia

Colombian President Gustavo Petro is a “sick man” who manufactures cocaine and sells it to the US, Trump claimed on Sunday. When asked if the US might intervene militarily in Colombia as well, Trump replied that “that sounds good to me”.

Petro, a member of the Colombian M19 guerrilla in his youth, responded by saying he was ready to defend his country.

“I swore I would never touch a gun again … but for my homeland I will take up arms again”, he wrote on X.

Cuba

Cuba, a close ally of Venezuela, is “close to falling”, according to Trump. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, with Cuban accents, called the island nation “a huge problem” on Sunday.

“If I lived in Havana and worked in the government, I would be worried,” he warned on NBC’s “Meet the Press”.

– For Venezuela, and of course for Cuba, we are willing to sacrifice our lives, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel announced.

Mexico

Donald Trump has repeatedly accused neighboring Mexico of not doing enough against drug cartels in the country.

On Sunday, he claimed that drugs are “flowing” through Mexico and that the United States “will have to do something about it.” At a press conference on Monday, President Claudia Sheinbaum defended her country.

– Mexico is cooperating with the United States, including for humanitarian reasons, to prevent fentanyl and other drugs from reaching the population, especially young people, she said.

At the same time, Sheinbaum stated that she does not believe that the United States is seriously considering an invasion of Mexico.

Iran

The regime in Iran, where major popular protests have raged for more than a week, received a sharp warning from Trump over the weekend.

– If they start killing people, as they have done in the past, I think they will be hit hard by the United States, he told reporters.

Already last week, Trump claimed that the US is ready (“locked and loaded”) to come to the rescue of the protesters.

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, responds that the Islamic Republic “will not yield to the enemy.”