"After a year of gutting the United States government, deploying armed jackboots to American cities, and bombing at least seven countries, the Trump administration kicked off 2026 by invading Venezuela and kidnapping its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores. In the wake of that assault, President Trump doubled down on his abandonment of the isolationist positions he once supposedly held, threatening military action against Colombia, Cuba, Iran, and Mexico."
"Destabilizing countries the world over and then attacking the people who flee those wars is, of course, nothing new. From the September 11 attacks in 2001 until September 2020, this country's war on terror, according to one study, displaced an estimated 37 million people in eight countries. And that figure doesn't even include several million displaced during smaller conflicts the United States participated in from Chad to Tunisia, Mali to Saudi Arabia."
President Trump initiated a 2026 invasion of Venezuela, abducting Nicolás Maduro and his wife and threatening further military action across multiple countries. He publicly vowed to seize Greenland by force if necessary. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were deployed nationwide to detain immigrants and remove people from the streets. Trump simultaneously pushed to block new refugees and migrants while planning military campaigns likely to generate additional mass displacements. The U.S. war on terror from 2001 to 2020 displaced an estimated 37 million people in eight countries. That total excludes millions displaced in smaller conflicts and by other regional wars.
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