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A day after the audacious U.S. military operationin Venezuela, President Donald Trump on Sunday renewed his calls for an American takeover of the Danish territory of Greenland for the sake of U.S. security interests, while his top diplomat declared the communist government in Cuba is \u201cin a lot of trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n
The comments from Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio after the ouster of Venezuela’s Nicol\u00e1s Maduro underscore that the U.S. administration is serious about taking a more expansive role in the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n
With thinly veiled threats, Trump is rattling hemispheric friends and foes alike, spurring a pointed question around the globe: Who’s next?<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do need Greenland, absolutely,\u201d Trump said in an interview with The Atlantic in which he described the strategically located Arctic island as \u201csurrounded by Russian and Chinese ships.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked what the U.S.-military action in Venezuela could portend for Greenland, Trump replied: \u201cThey are going to have to view it themselves. I really don\u2019t know.\u201d The White House did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
Trump, in his administration’s National Security Strategy published last month, laid out restoring \u201cAmerican preeminence in the Western Hemisphere\u201d as a central guidepost for his second go-around in the White House.<\/p>\n
Trump has also pointed to the 19th century Monroe Doctrine, which rejects European colonialism, as well as the Roosevelt Corollary \u2014 a justification invoked by the U.S. in supporting Panama\u2019s secession from Colombia, which helped secure the Panama Canal Zone for the U.S. \u2014 as he’s made his case for an assertive approach to American neighbors and beyond.<\/p>\n
Trump has even quipped that some now refer to the fifth U.S. president’s foundational document as the \u201cDon-roe Doctrine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saturday’s dead-of-night operation by U.S. forces in Caracas and Trump\u2019s Atlantic interview heightened concerns in Denmark, which has jurisdiction over the vast mineral-rich island of Greenland.<\/p>\n
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in a statement following Trump’s latest comments on Greenland said he has “no right to annex” the territory. She also reminded Trump that Denmark already provides the United States, a fellow member of NATO, broad access to Greenland through existing security agreements.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would therefore strongly urge the U.S. to stop threatening a historically close ally and another country and people who have made it very clear that they are not for sale,\u201d Frederiksen said.<\/p>\n
Denmark on Sunday also signed onto a European Union statement underscoring that \u201cthe right of the Venezuelan people to determine their future must be respected\u201d as Trump has vowed to \u201crun\u201d Venezuela and pressed the acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, to get in line.<\/p>\n
Greenlanders and Danes were further rankled by a social media post following the raid by a former Trump administration official turned podcaster, Katie Miller. The post shows an illustrated map of Greenland in the colors of the Stars and Stripes accompanied by the caption: \u201cSOON.”<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd yes, we expect full respect for the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark,\u201d Amb. Jesper M\u00f8ller S\u00f8rensen, Denmark’s chief envoy to Washington, said in a post responding to Miller, who is married to Trump’s influential deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.<\/p>\n
During his presidential transition and in the early months of his return to the White House, Trump repeatedly called for U.S. jurisdiction over Greenland, and has pointedly not ruled out military force to take control of the mineral-rich, strategically located Arctic island that belongs to an ally.<\/p>\n
The issue had largely drifted out of the headlines in recent months. Then Trump put the spotlight back on Greenland less than two weeks ago when he said he would appoint Republican Gov. Jeff Landry as his special envoy to Greenland.<\/p>\n
The Louisiana governor said in his volunteer position he would help Trump \u201cmake Greenland a part of the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, concern simmered in Cuba, one of Venezuela\u2019s most important allies and trading partners, as Rubio issued a new stern warning to the Cuban government. U.S.-Cuba relations have been hostile since the 1959 Cuban revolution.<\/p>\n
Rubio, in an appearance on NBC’s \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d said Cuban officials were with Maduro in Venezuela ahead of his capture.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was Cubans that guarded Maduro,\u201d Rubio said. \u201cHe was not guarded by Venezuelan bodyguards. He had Cuban bodyguards.\u201d The secretary of state added that Cuban bodyguards were also in charge of \u201cinternal intelligence\u201d in Maduro\u2019s government, including \u201cwho spies on who inside to make sure there are no traitors.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump on Saturday told reporters that he viewed the Cuban government as \u201cvery similar\u201d to Venezuela.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Cuba is going to be something we\u2019ll end up talking about, because Cuba is a failing nation right now, a very badly failing nation, and we want to help the people,” Trump said.<\/p>\n
Cuban authorities called a rally in support of Venezuela\u2019s government and railed against the U.S. military operation, writing in a statement: \u201cAll the nations of the region must remain alert, because the threat hangs over all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rubio, a former Florida senator and son of Cuban immigrants, has long maintained Cuba is a dictatorship repressing its people.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the Western Hemisphere. This is where we live \u2014 and we\u2019re not going to allow the Western Hemisphere to be a base of operation for adversaries, competitors, and rivals of the United States,” Rubio said.<\/p>\n
Cubans like 55-year-old biochemical laboratory worker B\u00e1rbara Rodr\u00edguez were following developments in Venezuela. She said she worried about what she described as an \u201caggression against a sovereign state.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt can happen in any country, it can happen right here. We have always been in the crosshairs,\u201d Rodr\u00edguez said.<\/p>\n
This story was originally featured on Fortune.com<\/p>\n
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