Greenland, Cuba, Iran and more: All the places Trump has threatened to attack since hitting Venezuela

By Tim Lister, CNN Photo: JUNG YEON-JE / AFP Since the seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by US forces at the weekend, US President Donald Trump and members of his administration have issued warnings to several other countries and territories - including Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Iran and Greenland, a self-governing territory of Denmark. Trump said Sunday: "We are in the business of having countries around us that are viable and successful and where the oil is allowed to freely come out." "American dominance in the Western hemisphere will never be questioned again," Trump said. Here's what to know about what Trump has said in the last two days, and how some of those governments have responded. Photo: Jim Watson/Getty Images via CNN Newsource Greenland Trump repeated on Sunday that the US needs the huge north Atlantic island of Greenland "from the standpoint of national security". "We need Greenland… It's so strategic right now. Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships all over the place," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. "We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security, and Denmark is not going to be able to do it." Responding to Trump's latest comments, Greenland's Prime Minister Jens Frederik Nielsen said Monday that "the current and repeated rhetoric coming from the United States is entirely unacceptable. When the President of the United States speaks of 'needing Greenland' and links us to Venezuela and military intervention, it is not only wrong. It is disrespectful. "Our country is not an object in great-power rhetoric. We are a people. A country. A democracy," Nielsen added. Trump has repeatedly stated that he wants to annex Greenland - a huge, resource-rich 2,166,000 square kilometre island in the Atlantic and self-governing territory of Denmark - claiming that this is needed for American security purposes. Both Greenland and Denmark, a NATO ally of the US, are staunchly opposed to the idea. Photo: AFP Colombia Trump had harsh words for Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Sunday, describing him as "a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States, and he's not going to be doing it very long". When pressed by a reporter if those comments meant there could be an "operation" in Colombia in the future, Trump responded, "sounds good to me". Petro defended his government's track record on combatting drug trafficking in a near 700-word post on X, including what he described as "the largest cocaine seizure in the world's history". He added: "I am not illegitimate, nor am I a narco, I only have as assets my family home that I still pay for with my salary." Petro said he has ordered targeted bombings against drug-linked armed groups while adhering to humanitarian law. However, cocaine production in Colombia has reached record highs, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Petro, a former member of the M19 guerilla group, said later Monday that he would himself fight to defend Colombia. "I swore not to touch a weapon again… but for the homeland I will take up arms again," he said. Petro angered the Trump administration and had his US visa cancelled in September after calling on US soldiers to disobey orders. Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters via CNN Newsource Cuba Trump said Sunday that military intervention was unnecessary in Cuba, a key ally of Venezuela, because it was "ready to fall". "I don't think we need any action," Trump said. "It looks like it's going down." "I don't know if they're going to hold out, but Cuba now has no income," he added. "They got all their income from Venezuela, from the Venezuelan oil." But his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, called the Cuban government "a huge problem". "I think they're in a lot of trouble, yes," Rubio told NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday. "I'm not going to talk to you about what our future steps are going to be and our policies are going to be right now, in this regard, but I don't think it's any mystery that we are not big fans of the Cuban regime." "If I lived in Havana and I worked in the government, I'd be concerned," Rubio said. At a rally Saturday in front of the US Embassy in Havana, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel promised not to let the Cuba-Venezuela alliance go down without a fight. "For Venezuela, of course for Cuba, we are willing to give even our own life, but at a heavy cost," Díaz-Canel proclaimed. Photo: Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty Images via CNN Newsource Mexico Trump has frequently accused Mexico of not doing enough to clamp down on drug cartels. On Sunday, he said drugs were "pouring" through Mexico and that "we're going to have to do something." Trump added that the cartels in Mexico were "very strong" and "Mexico has to get their act together." In a phone interview with Fox News, Trump said he had asked Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum if she wanted the US military's help in rooting out drug cartels. Sheinbaum...

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