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Authors: Yang Zi, Ian Seow Cheng Wei
Published: 19 January 2026
The year 2026 began under extraordinary circumstances, as the US military struck targets in Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolás Maduro. Following the operation, the Trump administration announced that the United States would conduct strikes against drug cartels in Mexico, once again highlighting the president’s fixation with security issues in America’s near abroad. Two days later, he ordered special forces commanders to produce a plan to militarily take over Greenland.
These events indicate Trump’s clear ambitions to establish undisputed dominance over the Western hemisphere, which he proudly termed the “Donroe Doctrine”, a new geopolitical project that is likely to be the administration’s focus in the coming weeks.
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