Trump has created global anxiety over the coup in Venezuela – and now a security and defence expert warns Mirror readers that nobody is safe anymore
The world is anxious – and it’s no wonder after Trump’s warning and dangerous assertion of US power by capturing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro – and one expert stating that ‘we’re all in danger’.
Maduro was a seriously hardline socialist president, and brazen Trump has just put every country, especially Greenland on edge. The coup may have destablised a lot of leaders, causing an uneasy feeling globally – and Professor Anthony Glees, a security and defence expert from the University of Buckingham, has warned no one in Europe is safe, in any kind of strategic sense.
With Trump also threatening military strikes on Iran, as well as China and Russia becoming extremely frustrated over the Venezuelan coup, it may feel like World War Three may be impending.
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It’s clear Trump is no longer striving for the Peace Prize, and Prof Glees has warned “these are not pretty times for us” as we in Europe have reached a “major turning point in our relations with Trump’s MAGA America” and now no one is safe.
He told Daily Mirror: “He’s given up on the Peace Prize. Today, he’s Mars. And that’s awful for all of us in Europe let alone South America,” and added: “But Trump’s colonial ambitions are as every serious person argues simply unacceptable and a green light to the world’s bullies and a recipe for repression everywhere.”
What Trump did in Venezuela signifies a “definitive break” with the rules based international order. The US has ignored the UN and any type of traditional methods of addressing grievances.”
The expert further noted: “The same rules based order that a US president, Roosevelt, established together with his British ally Churchill. This system based on respect for sovereignty and lawfulness has not only prevented a nuclear armageddon since 1945 it has projected American power globally, allowing the USA to effectively win the Cold war and dominate world politics.
“There’s no going back. Trump has thrown it all away and it’ll take another 80 years to restore reason to world affairs, if ever.”
While it’s clear tensions are now high with Russia and China for the US, Professor Glees is under the impression that “both of these evil empires have told Trump to stay out of Venezuela and let Maduro go. However, I do not think they will actually do anything about this, apart perhaps from offering Maduro a safe have in Moscow or Bejing as well as huff and puff that a left wing dictator, their ally who stole an election has been deposed.”
Trump’s unprovoked violence is no different from Putin’s Ukraine invasion, and as for China’s Xi Jinping, whose troops were practising military action against the “separatists” of Taiwan, it’s all a worry and these demonstrations, according to experts, should be alarming for Britain.
Prof Glees warned those who need to worry are “ourselves in Europe and those like us in South America and Asia.” He added: “No one in Europe is safe, in any kind of strategic sense because Putin will not stop at destroying Ukraine’s sovereignty if Europe proves incapable of enabling the brave Ukrainians to defeat the vile Russian dictator on the battlefield. He will come for us next.”
But in terms of a world war, the expert doesn’t think it’s likely and said: “I don’t think so unless Trump undergoes a radical change of heart or gets removed either by impeachment or to the funny farm (both are highly unlikely). But does what is happening increase the already serous risk of an outbreak of conventional war in Europe? Yes, absolutely.”
Professor Glees slammed the UK for “relying far too heavily on America’s security umbrella, never once asking what might happen if an American president were to decide it was no longer raining and he would take his umbrella away,” and warned: “We are in deep trouble right now.
“We are rich in Europe, the Euro is strong, supported by a massive gold reserves and a functioning market of over 500,000 citizens and another 500,000 Europeans who are linked into the EU. America, Russia and China believe they can exploit Europe’s weakness. Let’s demonstrate to them that they can’t.”
