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GWYNNE DYER: Will Trump invade Greenland next?

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09.01.2026

It appears as though Trump is now eyeing Greenland after his ‘brilliant success’ in Venezuela, says Gwynne Dyer

The Crazy Gang are high on the ‘brilliant success’ of their Venezuela caper and looking for new targets. Like Alexander the Great, Donald Trump weeps because there are no more worlds to conquer.

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But wait! Actually, there are still lots of places to conquer.

Colombia is right next door to Venezuela, and the US fleet is already just offshore, so how about taking down President Gustavo Petro? “He’s a sick man who likes making cocaine and sending it to the United States, and he’s not going to be doing it very long,” according to The Donald (who is lying about Petro.)

“Operation Colombia sounds good to me,” Trump said on Monday.

He also name-checked Mexico (“Something will have to be done about it”), Iran (“We are locked and loaded and ready to go!”) and Cuba (“It looks like it’s ready to fall”).

But any of these ‘missions’ would require lots of planning and moving military assets around. He wants another hit right now.

Instant triumphs tend to be smaller and less rewarding (arresting Russian-registered tankers in mid-ocean, for example). There is only one whole country on his list that Trump could........

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