cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/32623201
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.
I know that no one believes his pretext of stopping drug trafficking because he pardoned one of the biggest in the world. What a fucking asshole.
Let him have the pretext, it still doesn’t justify kidnapping