‘I Don’t Need International Law’

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• President Donald Trump says the only guardrail as he seeks more global power is ‘my own morals’

• in new interview new york timeshe said he “doesn’t need international law” to determine his foreign policy approach

• In the interview, the president also highlighted plans for military action in Latin America and the annexation of Greenland and other areas.

President Donald Trump has made it clear he will not be hampered by the law as he continues to tease taking over the Western Hemisphere.

“I don’t need international law,” Trump said in a new interview. new york times. “I don’t want to hurt people.”

When pressed further, the president said he understood his government needed to abide by international law. However, he added, “It depends on what your definition of international law is.”

Trump insists that only “one thing” can curb his desire for global supremacy: “My own morals. My own mind. That’s the only thing that can stop me.”

Less than a week ago, U.S. troops under Trump’s command captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, first lady Celia Flores, in a “massive attack” on the capital, Caracas, and brought them to the United States to face trial on multiple charges related to narco-terrorism.

Although Venezuela has appointed interim leader Delcy Rodriguez, Trump has repeatedly said the United States is now responsible for running the independent country.

“It’s going to be run very sensibly, very fairly. And it’s going to make a lot of money,” he previously said. “You know they stole our oil. We built the whole industry and they just took it over like we were nothing. So we did something. We were late, but we did something.”

He later added: “We are going to sell a lot of oil [from Venezuela] Flow to other countries… We will make the oil flow the way it should flow. “

“We’re going to make sure that the Venezuelan people are taken care of… you’re going to have peace, you’re going to have justice… you’re going to have a real country.”

He doesn’t plan to stop there. The president is also keen on annexing Greenland, which is currently controlled by Denmark, a U.S. NATO ally.

Trump acknowledged that retaining the country’s ties with Nato rather than taking over Greenland, a key trade crossroads between the United States, Europe, China and Russia, “might be an option.”

“It’s very strategic right now. Greenland is full of Russian and Chinese ships. From a national security perspective, we need Greenland and Denmark can’t do that,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One on January 4.

arrive New York erahe insisted that having one ally control the country was not enough—he wanted exclusive, outright ownership.

“Because I think that’s the psychology of what it takes to be successful. I think ownership gives you something that you can’t do, you’re talking about a lease or a treaty. Ownership gives you things and elements that you can’t get by signing a document,” Trump said.

Trump has also set his sights on Colombia, Cuba, Iran and Mexico.

“You have to do something about Mexico. Mexico has to do something because they are pouring into Mexico and we have to do something about it,” he previously told reporters, referring to the country’s drug cartels.

“We want Mexico to do that. They have the ability to do it, but unfortunately the cartels are very powerful in Mexico,” Trump added.

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Trump said of Colombian President Gustavo Petro that his country is “run by a sick man who likes to make cocaine and sell it to the United States, and he won’t be doing that for much longer.”

Petro and era Before calling Trump to discuss the threats, he expressed his concerns about a U.S. attack on Colombia similar to Venezuela.

“We are in danger,” the Colombian president said. “Because the threat is real. It was created by Trump.”

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