"He has refused to rule out using military force to take control of Greenland and repeatedly floated the idea of making Canada the 51st state. He threatened to seize the Panama canal. He has imposed swingeing tariffs on key partners, and says he might abandon the Canada-Mexico trade pact signed in his first term. He has meddled outrageously in elections in Honduras and Argentina, and sought to interfere with Brazilian justice."
"He has launched deadly attacks on alleged drug boats in international waters extrajudicial killings that the administration has sought to legitimise by arbitrarily designating traffickers as terrorists and threatened military strikes on Mexico, Venezuela and any other country he blames for drugs consumed in the US. Gunboat diplomacy is back. The US has positioned an extraordinary display of military might off the coast of Venezuela its largest presence in the Caribbean for decades and is seizing oil tankers."
Donald Trump has reoriented US policy toward the Americas, invoking a Monroe-era playbook and embracing aggressive coercion. He has refused to rule out military action over Greenland, suggested annexing Canada as a state, and threatened to seize the Panama Canal. He has imposed heavy tariffs, contemplated abandoning the Canada-Mexico trade pact, meddled in Honduran and Argentine elections, interfered with Brazilian justice, and sanctioned Colombia's president. The administration has launched deadly attacks on alleged drug boats, labelled traffickers terrorists, threatened strikes on Mexico and Venezuela, deployed major naval forces near Venezuela, seized oil tankers, put a $50m bounty on Maduro, and pardoned Juan Orlando Hernande
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