AA Edit | Trump’s US Back In Role Of A Global Policeman

Having offered no logical reason for his actions in Venezuela, including killing around 40 people and kidnapping Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, except to say unconvincingly that the Venezuelan with a dubious record of having snatched the last presidential polls was a cartel leader who had flooded the US with drugs, Trump spoke of Cuba and Colombia in the same chilling tone of a President who had tasted the spoils of predatory action across territory without any resistance

Update: 2026-01-04 18:50 GMT

The irony is there for all to note as Trump was the one who had declared that, far from starting a war, he was going to stop wars. Of course, that did not stop him from peppering Iran’s nuclear processing facilities with bunker-busting cluster bombs nor from blockading petroleum ships around the Caribbean and strafing boats if they were suspected of running recreational drugs into the US. — AP