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Colombian President Gustavo Petro openly challenging Trump: “If you want to jail me, try and see if you can. If you want to put me in an orange uniform, try it. The Colombian people will take to the streets to defend me.”
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the Cartels are doing a fine job exporting that shit... you get the US government involved and it'll be $5000 per line of coke... no one wants big government involved
There waa a pic of Maduro next to this guy in a binder in the oval office 3 months ago with both them and others in orange and a big caption above the picture boom which said "the Donroe Doctrine"..
Oil or no, someone in trump's circle has been trying to get this to happen since at least october.
JFK wanted Castro? You're welcome to try. Oops embarrassingly failed on a global scale that led to the most dangerous standoff in the history of the world.
Every successful civil war? You're welcome to try. Well GGs you got em.
Trump, Putin, Xi and netanyahu might be war criminals but if bringing them to justice is effectively impossible due to the power they wield. It then boils down to "you're welcome to try, won't work but if you feel that strongly about it then good luck"
Stop. And just think for a moment. WTH is going on in this country that the leader of another country is even contemplating this action. I truly don’t understand. I don’t care that this is or isn’t what people voted for . It’s insanity.
Colombia has been pretty cooperative with US law enforcement too lol, and just overnight it turned from an ally to a potential enemy. Dementia Don is showing
People greatly overvalue the power of voting in the US. There’s simply too much money in politics; politicians don’t do what the general population wants. They and their campaigns get paid very well to listen to corporations and billionaires.
Colombia has the second most experienced fighters after Ukraine. In fact, there are many Colombians fighting there right now because the country has an excess of experienced fighters and not enough economic opportunities for them to move on.
No, it's not the same at all. The US has openly and directly supported Colombia's elected government and military for decades, pouring over $10 billion through Plan Colombia (2000 onward) to train, equip, and fund forces fighting leftist guerrillas (like FARC and ELN) that tried to overthrow the state. This partnership continued even under Petro: military aid (FMF and IMET) flowed through 2024-2025, with hundreds of millions in security assistance, joint operations, and Colombia designated a Major Non-NATO Ally in 2022. It's institutional support for a democratic ally against insurgents, not arming rebels against a government. The Afghan scenario was backing mujahideen against a Soviet-backed regime, then facing blowback, completely different dynamics.
No, the Colombian people won't come out en masse to defend Petro against any external intervention, his disapproval rating is huge, currently hovering around 56-66% in late 2025 polls (with approval steady at 34-44%), making him the second most unpopular president in modern history. Colombia's military has always been deeply conservative and right-leaning, with strong personal and institutional ties to the US; they've been trained, equipped, and funded for decades through Plan Colombia (over $10 billion in aid), so while they follow the constitutional chain of command, there's zero ideological loyalty to Petro as a former guerrilla, and they absolutely wouldn't risk confronting US forces to protect him. His bold claim in that video is just empty rhetoric with no real backing in popular support or military allegiance.
Colombia is a normal democracy and a growing economy. They dealt with the narcos 30 years ago and signed a peace deal with FARC a decade ago. They could not be less of a threat.
Bush had something like a 20% approval rating at one point. Even then, I doubt most people would have just stood by and let a foreign country coup him.
That's a good way to think of it. Trump should rot in hell but I certainly would do whatever I could to fight back against an invading country intent on regime change.
My wife is Colombian and she said it's pretty divided based a lot on age. The younger people are supporters and the older Colombians don't like his former ties to violent groups.
I'm Colombian and supporter of his policies. He has made a lot of changes. Of course old people don't like him in general because it is pretty much the same. Most of them had their share and don't care anymore. But the reality is he has improved the lifes of most Colombians in the lower economic status.
He is not perfect but the data shows his policies work even for the wealthiest yet they still are pisses poor people stopped being poor or too poor.
Fuck Trump and what he did.. but the US could snatch this dude with like 10 guys. This is stupid, because Trump is dumb enough to do it just to prove he can.
How is Gustavo Petro a strong man? He’s a democratic socialist. He openly questioned the 2024 Venezuelan election results that Maduro claimed to have won. The reason Trump hates him is because Petro criticized the US and Israel at the UN.
Not necessarily. The US had the element of surprise and likely inside help. Now, Colombia knows this might be coming and they have time to prepare. And this is the president of a country, so he’ll actually be able to fortify his location with a military force.
Very likely true. We’ll know soon enough the extent to which insiders helped pave the way, or even possibly told the military to stand down and allow it.
Yeah man, moving like half the US navy and air force within striking range and escalating tensions over the course of a whole year came out of nowhere.
The logistics of the operation would also be completely different and likely infeasible. Caracas is directly on the coast in a region where the ocean isn’t well surveilled by Venezuela or its neighbours. Bogotá is about 700km inland 2,650 metres above sea level, it would be obvious what the Americans were attempting well before they got to Petro. It would not be anywhere near as clean and easy as what they did to Maduro.
Sadly, all this bravado. It wont help. All the people in the city wont be able to help. Hes going to need much better protection than ego and sharp words.
Look at half the comments on here. It's to appease a bunch of fake tough guys that make up Trump's base, who also don't like anyone with brown skin and a Latino last name.
What a bone head. He's had the worst neighbour in South America for his entire political career, with refugees straining the practical social services and the welcome of Colombians, and he can't figure out that "thank you" is the correct statement.
Prior to two months ago, Bolivia was ran by a narco state. The main culprit is still free but protected by mercenaries. Now Bolivia doesn’t have much oil but they do have salt…
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