'My Own Morality' Is 'the Only Thing That Can Stop Me' from World Dominance: 'I Don't Need International Law'
The president doubled down on his plans to take military action in Latin America, annex Greenland and more in a revealing new interview
President Donald Trump said that his only guardrail as he looks to obtain more global power is "my own morality"
In a new interview with The New York Times, he said he doesn't "need international law" to dictate his approach to foreign policy
Also in the interview, the president doubled down on his plans to take military action in Latin America, annex Greenland and more
President Donald Trump is making it clear that he won't be constrained by the law as he continues teasing a takeover of the Western Hemisphere.
“I don’t need international law,” Trump said in a new interview with The New York Times.
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Whatever ailments are swirling around Trump at 79, the visible fatigue, the slurred words, the odd gait, the mental fog, will only deepen. The presidency doesn’t just expose frailty, it magnifies it.
Americans already turned on Joe Biden, not simply because of inflation but because they saw how the passage of time grabbed him and startled us all. Reagan’s cognitive decline was managed quietly before the 24-hour news cycle and social media.
There will be no third term for Donald J. Trump. Not because the Constitution forbids it but because time, truth, and the human body will, and he will decline right along with America.
Trump is not immortal. He’s not even particularly strong. He’s an elderly man who’s lived a lifetime of excess, neglect, and denial. And sooner rather than later, those choices will catch up with him and prohibit him from running again.
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Former Russia adviser says Russia offered US free rein in Venezuela in exchange for Ukraine
Russian officials indicated in 2019 that the Kremlin would be willing to back off from its support for Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela in exchange for a free hand in Ukraine, according to Fiona Hill, an adviser to President Donald Trump at the time.
The Russians repeatedly floated the idea of a “very strange swap arrangement between Venezuela and Ukraine," Hill said during a congressional hearing in 2019. Her comments surfaced again this week and were shared on social media after the U.S. stealth operation to capture Maduro.
Hill said Russia pushed the idea through articles in Russian media that referenced the Monroe Doctrine — a 19th century principle in which the U.S. opposed European meddling in the Western Hemisphere and in return agreed to stay out of European affairs. It was invoked by Trump to justify the U.S. intervention in Venezuela.
Even though Russian officials never made a formal offer, Moscow's then-ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, hinted many times to her that Russia was willing to allow the United States to act as it wished in Venezuela if the U.S. did the same for Russia in Europe, Hill told The Associated Press this week.
“Before there was a ‘hint hint, nudge nudge, wink wink, how about doing a deal?' But nobody (in the U.S.) was interested then," Hill said.
Trump dispatched Hill — then his senior adviser on Russia and Europe — to Moscow in April 2019 to deliver that message. She said she told Russian officials “Ukraine and Venezuela are not related to each other.”
At that time, she said, the White House was aligned with allies in recognizing Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country’s interim president.
But fast forward seven years and the situation is different.
After ousting Maduro, the U.S. has said it will now “run” Venezuela policy. Trump also has renewed his threat to take over Greenland — a self-governing territory of Denmark and part of the NATO military alliance — and threatened to take military action against Colombia for facilitating the global sale of cocaine.
The Kremlin will be “thrilled” with the idea that large countries — such as Russia, the United States and China — get spheres of influence because it proves “might makes right,” Hill said.
Trump’s actions in Venezuela make it harder for Kyiv's allies to condemn Russia's designs on Ukraine as “illegitimate” because “we’ve just had a situation where the U.S. has taken over — or at least decapitated the government of another country — using fiction,” Hill told AP.
The Trump administration has described its raid in Venezuela as a law enforcement operation and has insisted that capturing Maduro was legal.
The Russian Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Hill's account.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has not commented on the military operation to oust Maduro but the Foreign Ministry issued statements condemning U.S. “aggression.”
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