He’s talking up front about going after the Drug cartels…..
Of course the cartel’s make money suppling America with their products…..
Drugs….
This is new ‘Shield of America’ Trump invention which he put disgraced Kristi Noem in charge of….
Hegseth will be supplying the American military ‘muscle’….
Trump IS working to curb Russian and Chinese influence in the Western Hemisphere , ‘America First’, under the cover of the drugs thing…
President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States and Latin American countries are banding together to combat violent cartels as his administration looks to demonstrate it remains committed to sharpening U.S. foreign policy focus on the Western Hemisphere even while dealing with five-alarm crises around the globe.
Trump encouraged regional leaders gathered at his Miami-area golf club to take military action against drug trafficking cartels and transnational gangs that he says pose an “unacceptable threat” to the hemisphere’s national security.
“The only way to defeat these enemies is by unleashing the power of our militaries,” Trump said. “We have to use our military. You have to use your military.” Citing the U.S.-led coalition that confronted the Islamic State group in the Middle East, the Republican president said that ”we must now do the same thing to eradicate the cartels at home.”
The gathering, which the White House called the “Shield of the Americas” summit, came just two months after Trump ordered an audacious U.S. military operation to capture Venezuela’s then-president, Nicolás Maduro, and whisk him and his wife to the United States to face drug conspiracy charges….
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The leaders of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, and Trinidad and Tobago joined the Republican president at Trump National Doral Miami, a golf resort where he is also set to host the Group of 20 summit later this year.
The idea for a summit of like-minded conservatives from across the hemisphere emerged from the ashes of what was to be the 10th edition of the Summit of the Americas, which was scrapped during the U.S. military buildup off the coast of Venezuela last year.
Host Dominican Republic, pressured by the White House, had barred Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela from attending the regional gathering. But after leftist leaders in Colombia and Mexico threatened to pull out in protest — and with no commitment from Trump to attend — the Dominican Republic’s president, Luis Abinader, decided at the last minute to postpone the event, citing “deep differences” in the region.
The Shield of the Americas moniker was meant to speak to Trump’s vision for a “America First” foreign policy toward the region that leverages U.S. military and intelligence assets unseen across the area since the end of the Cold War….
Trump hopes that his Board of Peace can supplant the United Nations co-founded by Franklin Roosevelt, and that the Shield of the Americas can overshadow the Pan-American Union fostered by Teddy Roosevelt.
I have no idea what he and RFKJ will try to supplant the World Health Organisation.
Donald thinks he go out as the Greatest thing since Toilet paper….
A criminal, sexual predator , who IS a serial liar that HAS millions eating his Bull Shit…
So far he has NOT succeeded in much of anything except making HIMSELF RICHER….
Is THIS ‘Insightful’?
I was wondering which members of the Organization of American States had not joined the Shield of the Americas and the answer is most of them.
There were three very important ones that immediately sprung to my mind (as no doubt to many others’ minds): Canada, Mexico and Brazil. (The only Shield member of great importance is the USA herself.)
Here is what my Microsoft AI Copilot gleaned for me from Wikipedia:
OAS Members Not in the Shield of the Americas:
✅ First, the 13 participating states
According to the initiative’s membership list, the following countries have joined:
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, United States.
❌ Therefore, the remaining 22 OAS members have not joined
These are all OAS members not listed among the 13 participants:
North America
• Canada
• Mexico
Central America & Caribbean
• Belize
• Guatemala
• Nicaragua
• Haiti
• Cuba (OAS member but suspended from participation since 1962; still counted as a member state)
• Jamaica
• Barbados
• Grenada
• Suriname
• Dominica
• Saint Lucia
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• The Bahamas
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
South America
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Peru
• Uruguay
• Venezuela (OAS considers the 35 states as members; Venezuela’s status is disputed but still listed in OAS membership rolls)
All of these appear in the OAS’s official list of 35 member states but do not appear in the Shield of the Americas membership list.
Donald IS Losing more and MORE everydya in his attempt to boost his EGO….
In other words, the “Shield of the Americas” has about the same importance in the Americas as the “Board of Peace” has among the 197 members of the United Nations as a whole.