When Donald Trump ordered United States troops to invade Venezuela in South America and capture its president Nicolas Maduro on January 3, 2026, he was merely going down a well-trodden path. https://www.rediff.com/news/special/history-in-minutes-when-us-invaded-countries-in-the-americas/20260105.htm
Ever since the fifth president of the US, James Monroe, declared in 1823 that the Americas was off limits to the European powers (later called the Monroe Doctrine), the US has tended to treat the American continent as its backyard, targeting nations therein to enforce its will.
That a country thinks it has the right to randomly invade another country has repercussions that will for sure be played on the global arena in the years to come.
05/01/2026