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Trump spurs speculation on plans for Greenland, Cuba
The Philippine Star
|January 06, 2026
A day after the audacious US military operation in Venezuela, US President Donald Trump on Sunday renewed his calls for an American takeover of the Danish territory of Greenland for the sake of US security interests and threatened military action on Colombia for facilitating the global sale of cocaine, while his top diplomat declared the communist government in Cuba is “in a lot of trouble.”
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The comments from Trump and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio after the ouster of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro underscore that the US administration is serious about taking a more expansive role in the Western Hemisphere.
With thinly veiled threats, Trump is rattling hemispheric friends and foes alike, spurring a pointed question around the globe: Who's next?
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