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Every nation Trump has attacked or threatened to attack during second term as president
During his second term in office, Donald Trump has not exactly been shy on the global stage, threatening to attack - or actually attacking - several other nations.
With Iran the latest on that list, let’s just have a bit of a recap.
Donald Trump has threatened or attacked many other nations
When he rode back into the White House for a second time, most people thought that this term was going to be all about Trump’s ‘America First’ slogan, so popular with his followers.
However, despite only starting in January 2025 - I know, right? - Trump has been involving the US with other countries at a pretty staggering rate.
However, he still claims that this is his way of putting American interests to the fore, as he says that the countries he has been targeting ‘directly threaten’ the interests of the USA.
Whether that statement rings true or not entirely depends on your standpoint.
Stick with us, because this is a long list.
We’ll start with the most recent - Iran.
Iran
Trump ordered air strikes in Iran, killing many people including the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
That action, taken jointly by the US and Israel, has destabilized an already fairly unstable Middle East region, with retaliatory strikes in other countries.
The US also sank a number of Iranian ships, and targeted nuclear and strategic sites.
Trump has also ordered the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to stop fighting or face ‘certain death'.
He claims this action is in response to Iran’s refusal to drop nuclear ambitions.
Then there’s Venezuela.
Venezuela
Trump sent a mission into the country and captured President Nicolás Maduro, who remains in US custody.
Special Forces raided the president’s home, taking him and his wife into custody on ‘narco-terrorism’ charges.
They will face trial in New York.
Despite claiming that there was no plan to act further, Trump said he was ‘not afraid of boots on the ground’ should it come to that.
He also announced that the US is now in control of all of Venezuela’s oil as well as the running of the country.
He said: “We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition.
“We don’t want to be involved with having somebody else get in and we have the same situation that we had for the last long period of years, so we are going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition.
“And it has to be judicious, because that’s what we’re all about. We want peace, liberty and justice for the great people of Venezuela, and that includes many from Venezuela that are now living in the United States and want to go back to their country, it’s their homeland.”
Despite that statement, Venezuela appointed an acting president in Delcy Rodríguez.
Somalia
But let’s not forget Somalia, where Trump ordered air strikes within days of returning to the Oval Office.
He claimed that he was targeting Islamic State fighters in the area, and was quoted as saying: “The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians.
“Our Military has targeted this Isis Attack Planner for years, but Biden and his cronies wouldn’t act quickly enough to get the job done. I did!”
He ominously added: “The message to ISIS and all others who would attack Americans is that 'WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU!'”
As well as calling Somalia a ‘hell hole’ he has also struck the area in the time since.
Iraq
In Iraq, a territory the US knows well, there have been counterterrorism attacks and air strikes, aimed at targeting IS.
After one such strike, Donald Trump celebrated: “Today the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed. He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters.
“His miserable life was terminated, along with another member of ISIS, in coordination with the Iraqi Government and the Kurdish Regional Government. PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!”
Yemen
Yemen is home to the Houthis, a rebel faction that had been targeting ships in the Red Sea in connection with the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
Trump has ordered over 1,000 strikes on them, reportedly spending more than $1bn attacking the Houthis.
After they sank a Greek ship in July, Trump sent out a stinging social media post in which he said that their aggression ‘will not be tolerated, we will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective’.
He threatened: “HELL WILL RAIN DOWN UPON YOU LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE.”
Syria
Syria has also long been a site of conflict, with the US involved.
This has meant more air strikes against IS following the death of two US soldiers and a civilian interpreter back in 2025.
Despite Trump claiming the terrorist group was responsible for the attack, which also saw three US military personnel and two Syrian security service staff injured, Syrian officials disputed that, claiming it was a revenge attack by a former security services staff member who faced the sack.
70 targets were attacked with jets, helicopters and artillery fire.
Nigeria
America sent fighter jets into the African nation on Christmas Day 2025 in order to ‘protect Christians’.
Alleged militant targets were bombed near the border with Niger, as US Secretary of War
Pete Hegseth said: “The President was clear last month: the killing of innocent Christians in Nigeria (and elsewhere) must end. The Department of War is always ready, so ISIS found out tonight — on Christmas.”
Mexico and Colombia
This is more of a threat than any actual action, but Trump claims both countries have problems with drug cartels calling the shots.
He has previously threatened to do ‘something’ if Mexico doesn’t ‘get their act together’.
Judging by the rest of the list, we can take an educated guess at what that looks like.
He also said: “Colombia is very sick, too, run by a sick man, [President Gustavo Petro] who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States, and he’s not going to be doing it very long.”
Greenland
Yes, it’s well documented that Trump wants Greenland, regardless of what the people of the gigantic yet sparsely-populated icy territory and Denmark, which currently owns it, think.
Currently, Greenland is a self-governing part of the Kingdom of Denmark, but Trump wants it for ‘national security’ reasons and nothing at all to do with any natural resources that may or may not be there.
He’s even insisted that he would take it ‘one way or the other’ and refused to rule out armed efforts.
Other countries have rallied to Denmark and Greenland’s aid, sending troops to the area, with Trump threatening to slap tariffs on any countries who get in his way.
After a discussion with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, that plan was rescinded.
He said: “I don’t want to use force. I won’t use force.
“All the US is asking for is a place called Greenland. You can say yes, and we will be very appreciative.
“Or you can say no and we will remember.”
He added: “There’s not a thing that Denmark can do about it if Russia or China wants to occupy Greenland, but there’s everything we can do. You found that out last week with Venezuela.”