'Nobody Can Stop Us'

"In the months before the U.S. military snatched Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, from their home, President Trump justified his buildup of forces in the Caribbean as an extension of his "America First" domestic agenda. He was ordering deadly missile strikes against boats in the region because they were smuggling drugs at Maduro's behest and those drugs were killing Americans, he claimed."

"Stephen Miller used the occasion to rattle officials in Denmark as well as the putative NATO allies of the U.S. by declaring Greenland as good as ours. "Nobody's going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland," he told CNN's Jake Tapper. The administration is so eager to assert what it sees as its natural imperialist mandate that Trump has dubbed it the "Donroe Doctrine,""

President Trump ordered a military buildup in the Caribbean, framing strikes on smuggling boats as necessary because Maduro's regime was allegedly sending lethal drugs to the United States. The administration portrayed undocumented immigrants as violent criminals without evidence. After U.S. forces captured Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, leaving at least 60 dead and placing Venezuelan economic resources in U.S. hands, officials shifted to open imperialist rhetoric and discussed bringing other countries under American control. Trump issued direct threats toward Cuba, Colombia, and Mexico, while aides floated territorial claims such as Greenland and invoked a self-styled "Donroe Doctrine."

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