Donald Trump sent his troops to Venezuela and abducted its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife. If he can do that, where will he get the moral right to question if Putin abducts Zelensky from Ukraine or if China conquers Taiwan?
What moral right will he have to stop India’s Operation Sindoor with Pakistan? What precedent is Donald Trump setting?
Well, Donald Trump’s regime is not the only one that carried out such operations. The history of the USA since 1953 has been the same. But Donald Trump interfering in every country’s aggression with others and claiming himself as a potential candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize while carrying out such kidnapping acts is the irony.
Let us now look back into American history.
In 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency led the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, restoring Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to power. After losing U.S. support during the Iranian Revolution, the Shah fled and later died in exile in 1980.
In Guatemala in 1954, President Jacobo Árbenz was removed through a CIA backed coup, leading to decades of political violence.
In 1961, Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was captured and executed after U.S. backed rivals seized power.
Two years later, in 1963, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated following a coup approved by Washington.
During the Cold War, the United States supported the 1965 Indonesian coup against Sukarno that brought Suharto to power and the 1973 Chilean coup that overthrew President Salvador Allende.
Direct military intervention intensified in later decades. In 1989, the U.S. invaded Panama and abducted de facto leader Manuel Noriega, who later died after years in prison in 2017.
The 2003 invasion of Iraq resulted in the capture and execution of President Saddam Hussein in 2006.
In 2011, U.S. led NATO intervention in Libya enabled the capture and killing of Muammar Gaddafi.
Alongside these actions, the United States operated a global extraordinary rendition program from 2001 to 2009, abducting suspects across multiple countries.
Together, these cases demonstrate a persistent pattern of regime change through force, secrecy, and coercion, often producing long term instability rather than lasting political order.
Now the point is that Donald Trump is turning his focus toward the Colombian president. His words in press meetings clearly indicate this. He has also stated that Cuba is on his list of targets.
Does refusing to obey him or declining to hand over a nation’s resources now result in military action? What kind of bullying is this?
Every resource in the world does not belong to the United States to seize at will. Every nation has its own property, oil, rare earth minerals, and other resources, and each nation has the sovereign right to decide where to sell them, to whom, and at what price.
Acting aggressively against countries simply because they refuse to comply reflects a mindset reminiscent of monarchical times, when empires conquered smaller kingdoms out of greed for wealth and power.
Such behavior mirrors the era of imperial expansion, not modern international diplomacy. Donald Trump increasingly appears to act like a monarch disguised as a political leader, asserting dominance through threats rather than respecting sovereignty and international norms.
Kiran Sharma