Trump is counting on further changes on the world map. The EU was almost speechless
Less than 48 hours after the daring raid on Caracas and the detention of the Venezuelan leader and his wife, Donald Trump spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One. — Cuba looks ready to collapse, said the president. — I don't know if they'll last long.
The president dismissed the possibility of using U.S. forces to hasten the collapse of the Cuban government, explaining that Cuba's main economic support was Venezuela. — Cuba only survived thanks to Venezuela, Trump argued.
Many presidents predicted the fall of the communist authorities, but Havana survived the collapse of the USSR. Still, it's clear from Trump's statements that his administration not only does he expect regime change in several countries, but he openly expects it — even amid uncertainty about Venezuela's future.
“If they don't cooperate, we will launch a second attack.”
— Don't ask me who's in charge [Wenezuelą]because it will be controversial, President Trump told reporters. – We rule.
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For now, Trump is willing to work with Delcy Rodriguez, Venezuela's vice president and acting president. He declared that before the elections, he would like to rebuild the country – especially its oil infrastructure. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick suggested that the steel and aluminum industries can also be revitalized to the benefit of the US.
Trump said he expects Rodriguez and the new Venezuelan government will allow the United States to have free access to the countryso that American forces can help with reconstruction. But he added: “If they don't cooperate, we will launch a second attack.”
The administration maintains that the operation was aimed against Maduro largely the fight against drug trafficking. Trump also threatened Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who has openly criticized the US operation in Venezuela.
— Colombia is very sick too. “It's run by a sick man who likes to produce cocaine and ship it to the United States, but he won't be doing that for a long time,” Trump said.
The British Prime Minister does not want to completely fall under Trump
— We need Greenland for national security. The EU needs us to have Greenland, Donald Trump also said, just a few hours after Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, criticized him for previous threats against the Arctic island, which is an autonomous part of Denmark. Frederiksen's position was supported by Keir Starmer.
Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister of Denmark, and Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the UK. Copenhagen, October 2, 2025EPA/EMIL HELMS / PAP
— The future of Greenland belongs to Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark, emphasized the British Prime Minister in an interview with Sky News television. — Denmark is a close European ally, a close NATO ally, so the future must belong to Greenland [i] Kingdom of Denmark, and only to Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark.
Starmer is walking a diplomatic tightrope as he tries to maintain good relations with Trump. At the same time, he is under pressure from some MPs from the center-left Pract Party They demand condemnation of Saturday's capture of Nicolas Maduro by the American military.
Starmer refused answering the question of whether Trump's actions violate international lawarguing that “it is a complicated situation.” He said the priority should be “a peaceful transition to democracy.”
Donald Tusk appeals for European unity. “Otherwise we are finished.”
On the other hand The EU's response to the US intervention in Venezuela was quite mixed. Kaja Kallas, the EU's foreign policy chief, called for “restraint” in a statement that was supported by 26 member states – except Hungary.
On Monday, Donald Tusk wrote on social media that Europe will not be taken seriously if it is “weak and divided: neither enemy nor ally.”
“Now it is clear. We must finally believe in our own strength, we must continue to arm ourselves, we must remain united like never before,” he stressed. “One for all, all for one. Otherwise we are finished.”
Meanwhile, Spain separated from the EU and joined five Latin American countries, making a much stronger statement condemning Washington's attack on Venezuela's sovereignty and calling for non-exploitation of the country's natural resources in connection with Trump's announcement to take over its oil fields.
While most EU Member States have issued their own carefully worded statements calling for respect for international law, Italy took a more favorable stancecalling military action “justified in the face of hybrid security attacks.”
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, however, was merciless, claiming that the United States was invading Venezuela “further evidence of the breakdown of world order”and in a Facebook post on Monday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stated that the “liberal world order is falling apart.”
