President Donald Trump just made it clear that he already has his eyes set on a new target following the US’s capture of the president of Venezuela. During a press conference on Saturday, he urged Colombian President Gustavo Petro to ‘watch his ass.’ The threat marks a dramatic escalation in tensions across Latin America, with Trump openly invoking the Monroe Doctrine to assert US dominance in the Western Hemisphere.

  • Pyr@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    South America needs to make its own form of NATO to protect itself from America.

    Maybe… SATO…

    • freebee@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      It wouldn’t do the trick, not a single country in Latin America is nuclear armed, there is no counter threat deterrence to the biggest superpower threat, even if they would be a united military (which is already really unlikely to happen). Unless French Guyana somehow gets caught up in the mess, who knows.