{"id":55842,"date":"2025-10-26T06:59:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=55842"},"modified":"2025-10-26T07:10:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T15:10:40","slug":"president-trump-seems-itching-for-multiple-wars-in-the-western-hemisphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/26\/president-trump-seems-itching-for-multiple-wars-in-the-western-hemisphere\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump Seems Itching for Multiple Wars in the Western Hemisphere"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump seems to be following through in his second term as president on the threat of a United States war on Venezuela<\/a> he made in his first term. Significant US military force has been recently placed near Venezuela ready for attack, the US has already destroyed several boats near Venezuela and killed most the people on them in a claimed effort to counter \u201cnarco-terrorism,\u201d and Trump last week said he has authorized Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operation and is considering attacks on land in Venezuela.<\/p>\n

The justification the Trump administration presents for all this is that it is part of the US government\u2019s drug war, an endeavor that has meted out death, destruction, and rights abuses decade after decade as drug use in America continues along. The Trump administration also re-characterizes alleged drug transport as \u201cnarco-terrorism\u201d in an effort to gain legal and public support for hostile actions.<\/p>\n

Trump seems not to be content to go to war against just Venezuela whose President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro he has proclaimed is a drug kingpin. Trump on Sunday pegged the president of neighboring Western Hemisphere nation Colombia with the same accusation used against Maduro. Here is how Trump put it in a Sunday post<\/a> at his Truth Social page:<\/p>\n

President Gustavo Petro, of Colombia, is an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Colombia. It has become the biggest business in Colombia, by far, and Petro does nothing to stop it, despite large scale payments and subsidies from the USA that are nothing more than a long term rip off of America. AS OF TODAY, THESE PAYMENTS, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF PAYMENT, OR SUBSIDIES, WILL NO LONGER BE MADE TO COLOMBIA. The purpose of this drug production is the sale of massive amounts of product into the United States, causing death, destruction, and havoc. Petro, a low rated and very unpopular leader, with a fresh mouth toward America, better close up these killing fields immediately, or the United States will close them up for him, and it won\u2019t be done nicely. Thank you for your attention to this matter! ~ President Donald J. Trump<\/em><\/p>\n

Notice Trump\u2019s comment that the Colombia president \u201cbetter close up these killing fields immediately, or the United States will close them up for him, and it won\u2019t be done nicely.\u201d That is a threat of war.<\/p>\n

Will Trump stop with just these two countries in a Western Hemisphere war spree? Trump, after regaining the presidency earlier this year, took actions in apparent preparation for war on Mexico<\/a> as well \u2013 actions in line with Trump\u2019s comments since his first term supportive of war on Mexico and argued to be for protecting Americans from drugs and terrorism as with wars on Venezuela and Colombia.<\/p>\n

Reprinted with permission from the Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Adam Dick worked from 2003 through 2013 as a legislative aide for Rep. Ron Paul. Previously, he was a member of the Wisconsin State Board of Elections, a co-manager of Ed Thompson’s 2002 Wisconsin governor campaign, and a lawyer in New York and Connecticut.<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump seems to be following through in his second term as president on the threat of a United States war on Venezuela he made in his first term. Significant US military force has been recently placed near Venezuela ready for attack, the US has already destroyed several boats near Venezuela and killed most the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[770],"class_list":["post-55842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55842"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55852,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55842\/revisions\/55852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55842"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=55842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}