“Venezuela will probably not be the last country hit by American intervention,” Donald Trump assured The Atlanticthis Tuesday, January 6. In the sights of the 47th American president, five other countries: Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Greenland, and Iran. With the “Donroe” strategy, one thing is certain: “The United States is not done with international interventions” he said with his famous confidence.
With the capture of Nicolás Maduro, the tenant of the White House has undertaken a symbolic coup. By orchestrating the kidnapping of the Venezuelan president military manDonald Trump returns to the harsh method of his predecessor Theodore Roosevelt. The idea is simple: to ensure order and the primacy of Washington’s interests, by reaffirming American military and economic power in the face of rebel countries.
This is what the country’s new National Security Strategy states, revealed on December 2, 2025 and renamed “Donroe”, – in reference to the first letter of his first name and the Monroe Doctrine (1832), making America the preserve of the United States against non-American powers. By showing his fangs, Trump wishes that “ American domination does not (either) never questioned again” reveals the new strategic compass. A radical posture, which applies to the entire American continent, but also throughout the Western Hemisphere, and beyond.
Colombia
After Nicolás Maduro, Trump has not ruled out soon attacking Gustavo Petro, another figure of the Latin American radical left. If Colombia is a democratic regime, its president, in power since 2022, fuels the strong enmity of Donald Trump. And for good reason, the American president regularly accuses his Colombian counterpart of doing nothing to stem the production of cocaine and force the armed groups involved in the drug trafficking which is plaguing the United States territory. “He should watch his ass,” he warned the day after his coup in Caracas after declaring that Colombia, like Venezuela, is also a country “very sick, run by a sick man who likes to produce cocaine (in his “factories” And “mills”) to sell it in the United States.
“He won’t do it much longer, I can assure you,” he spoke again to journalists, clearly displaying his intention to put an end to the Colombian industry which is illegally expanding its territory.
Mexico
Another Spanish-speaking country: Mexico, with which the United States shares more than 3,200 kilometers of borders, could also be another target of Trump, who aims to put an end to illegal immigration and illicit trafficking of all kinds. More than anything, Mexico is considered by the American administration as one of the main hubs for international drug trafficking (heroin, fentanylcocaine, methamphetamine).
To put an end to it, we must still manage to put down the powerful Mexican cartels, which exploit this line to flood the American market with drugs. Something initiated in December 2025, a month during which the Mexican government was ordered to hand over 55 of the country’s most dangerous drug lords to the American authorities. A muscular operation. But beyond the militarization of his foreign policy, Donald Trump’s strategy also consists of increasing economic pressure on Mexico. President Claudia Sheinbaum, however, did not fail to condemn Washington’s raid against Venezuela. A position which could place his country – already weakened by the increase in American customs taxes – in an impasse, while the CUSMA free trade agreement involving Canada, the United States and Mexico must again be negotiated during the year 2026.
Cuba
The island where Fidel Castro was born is also in the sights of the United States. “Cuba is ready to fall”Donald Trump recently blurted out. Since Cuba fell into communist control, the Caribbean island, placed under embargo since 1962, has been for Washington the source of an eternal ideological and geostrategic conflict. Since Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, the Cuban regime, part of the last bastions of Latin American communism, survives mainly thanks to the support and oil of the Venezuelan regime. Having brought about the fall of Maduro, Trump believes that the Cuban apple is now ripe for the picking.
Especially since the protest is brewing against the government, singled out by a part of its population exasperated by the influence of the communist regime and economic difficulties. Consequence: Havana now lives in fear of new social protests. Shaken in 2021 by historic demonstrations, the government of Miguel Diaz-Canel, already targeted last July by unprecedented American sanctions “for his role in the brutality exercised against the people”, It should therefore not be long before we experience new American diplomatic and economic sanctions. In June 2025, Donald Trump had already intensified his threats, increasing maximum pressure against the communist island. His motto: “Down with dictatorship!” » Cuban, already faltering and tarnished each year by fuel shortages and power cuts.
Greenland
“We need Greenland from a national security point of view and the Denmark will not be able to take care of it. » This is what Donald Trump said aboard Air Force One the day after the capture of Nicolas Máduro. A thunderous declaration which made the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, jump, who categorically condemns the American threats made for a year “against a territory and a people who have made it clear that they are not for sale”.
For Trump, control of this immense Arctic territory is of paramount military and geostrategic importance. Because taking possession of Greenland is for Washington the surest way to guarantee American deterrence against Russian and Chinese threats – and all the more so in view of the melting ice which could open, within a few years, the Arctic seas to commercial navigation and exploitation.
If Trump is so keen to take possession of it, it is also because the island had already revealed itself as one of the centerpieces of the American military system during the Second World War: Greenland had granted the United States the establishment of air bases (including those of Thule and Pituffik) to fight against incursions by German submarines, shortly after the Third Reich had captured Denmark – as well as Norway – during the operation. Weserübung (1941). An American presence which lasted until the Cold War, this time against the Soviet Union, before the island obtained its autonomy within the Danish kingdom in 1979.
Already coveted for 150 years by Washington for its significant still unexploited mineral resources (copper, zinc, lead) and its strategic location in the heart of the Arctic Circle, Greenland attracts Washington more than ever. “We’ll take care of it in about two months,” promised the American president.
Iran
Iran “will be hit very hard by the United States”, declared Donald Trump on January 4, referring to the case where demonstrators were killed in excessive violence by the Iranian regime. Struck for several days by major demonstrations, the Islamic Republic – which has reigned in fear over its population since 1979 – seems to be hanging on by a thread. And the White House, hostile to the mullahs’ regime, is closely scrutinizing this revolt, any destabilization of the regime being welcomed as good news.
In 2019, a year after withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, Trump imposed one of the toughest sanctions regimes America has ever ordered on Tehran in order to choke Iran’s economy and dry up its oil revenues. “We are ready, armed and ready to intervene,” now says the American president.
Beyond Iran, it is also the tandem China–Russia which comes into the crosshairs – the three giants making no secret of their desire to strengthen their ties in order to oppose more effectively against American interests and presence in the region. By toughening his tone, Trump hopes to win the standoff. But beyond the verbal intimidation and the trade war, Trump does not hesitate to point out that he holds the card of military intervention in his game. It may be, however, that America is content to witness the struggle which now pits the power of the mullahs against the thousand-year-old Iranian people.
For its part, the Iranian army has announced that in the event of intervention, it will retaliate “with more firmness” that during the “12-day war” last June – waged against Israel and the United States. Ayatollah Khamenei, Iranian Supreme Leader, would consider fleeing to Russia in the event of the fall of the regime, according to a British intelligence report consulted by The Times.
